Clinical Policy: Critical Issues in the Evaluation and Management of Emergency Department Patients With Suspected Appendicitis
- 31 January 2010
- journal article
- practice guideline
- Published by Elsevier BV in Annals of Emergency Medicine
- Vol. 55 (1), 71-116
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2009.10.004
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