Postoperative antibiotic therapy for children with perforated appendicitis: long course of intravenous antibiotics versus early conversion to an oral regimen
- 29 February 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier BV in The American Journal of Surgery
- Vol. 195 (2), 141-143
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjsurg.2007.10.002
Abstract
No abstract availableThis publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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