Taghavi R

No ORCID on file · 1 paper in corpus

2014

Evaluation of procalcitonin as a biomarker of diagnosis, severity and postoperative complications in adult patients with acute appendicitis.

Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran

BackgroundDelay in diagnosis and treatment of acute appendicitis (AA) results in an increased rate of perforation, postoperative morbidity, mortality and hospital length of stay. Several biochemical parameters including white blood cell (WB…