The diagnostic role of complement cascade biomarkers in acute appendicitis in adults presenting with right iliac fossa pain
Acute appendicitis (AA) is the most common cause for emergency abdominal surgery in the Western world. Diagnostic error results in unnecessary operations in up to thirty per cent of patients with associated morbidity and economic cost. Conventional biomarkers of inflammation, white cell count (WCC)...
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Exeter and Plymouth Peninsula Medical School
2017
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| Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.742773 |