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News tagged with 'Appendicitis - Diagnosis Errors'

Posted by Staff Writer
July 16, 2002 12:00 AM

A report in this month's issue of Archives of Surgery reveals that removing a healthy appendix may place a patient at greater risk of suffering damaging side effects. Researchers at the University of Washington reviewed data involving 52,969 appendix removals in 1997 and discovered that in 15 percent of the surgeries

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