Wade MD

No ORCID on file · 1 paper in corpus

2018

Ingested foreign body mimicking acute appendicitis.

International journal of surgery case reports ·doi:10.1016/j.ijscr.2018.04.003

IntroductionThe incidence of acute appendicitis is approximately 250,000 cases per year in the United States with a lifetime risk of 7% (Gupta & Dupuy, 1997). However, despite strongly associated clinical signs, diagnostic accuracy based on…