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Modified Alvarado Scoring System as a diagnostic tool for Acute Appendicitis at Bugando Medical Centre, Mwanza, Tanzania

BACKGROUND: Decision-making in patients with acute appendicitis poses a diagnostic challenge worldwide, despite much advancement in abdominal surgery. The Modified Alvarado Scoring System (MASS) has been reported to be a cheap and quick diagnostic tool in patients with acute appendicitis. However, d...

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Autores principales: Kanumba, Emmanuel S, Mabula, Joseph B, Rambau, Peter, Chalya, Phillipo L
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3050681/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21329493
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2482-11-4