Appendicitis: can immediate antibiotic treatment still be withheld?

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Hans-Dieter Allescher. Gastroenterology. 2012 Mar.

. 2012 Mar;142(3):666-9.

doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2012.01.019. Epub 2012 Jan 24.

¹ Department of Medicine, Klinikum Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Academic Teaching Hospital of the LMU Munich, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

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