Appendicitis

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Humes D, et al. (2007). Appendicitis, search date November 2006. Online version of BMJ Clinical Evidence. Also available online: http://www.clinicalevidence.com.

Sarosi GA, Turnage RH (2006). Appendicitis. In M Feldman et al., eds., Sleisinger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease, 8th ed., vol. 2, pp. 2599–2612. Philadelphia: Saunders.

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