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Appendicitis, Etiology, Macroscopy, and Histology of

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  • Addiss, D. G., Shaffer, N., Flower, B. S., & Tauxe, R. V. (1990). The epidemiology of appendicitis and appendectomy in the United States. American Journal of Epidemiology, 132, 910–925.

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  • Søreide, O. (1984). Appendicitis – A study of incidence, death rates and consumption of hospital resources. Postgraduate Medical Journal, 60, 341–345.

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  • Swidsinski, A., Dörffel, Y., Loening-Baucke, V., Tertychnyy, A., Biche-Ool, S., Stonogin, S., Guo, Y., & Sun, N. D. (2012). Mucosal invasion by fusobacteria is a common feature of acute appendicitis in Germany, Russia and China. Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology, 18, 55–58.

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  1. Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Iva Brcic

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  1. Faculty of Medicine of Porto University, Centro Hospitalar São João and Ipatimup/i3S, Porto, Portugal

    Fátima Carneiro

  2. Serviço de Anatomia Patológica, Instituto Português de Oncologia de Lisboa de Francisco Gentil, Lisbon, Portugal

    Paula Chaves

  3. Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal

    Paula Chaves

  4. Department of Pathology, Ankara University Medical School, Sihhiye, Ankara, Turkey

    Arzu Ensari

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Brcic, I. (2017). Appendicitis, Etiology, Macroscopy, and Histology of. In: Carneiro, F., Chaves, P., Ensari, A. (eds) Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract. Encyclopedia of Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40560-5_1418

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