Annals of surgery
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The authors present an accurate and comprehensive snapshot of appendicitis and the practice of appendectomy in the 1990s. ⋯ Despite a marked decline in associated mortality over the past 50 years, rates of perforation and negative appendectomy remain unchanged because they are influenced strongly by factors untouched by the intervening technologic advances.
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Comment Letter Clinical Trial
Ambulatory surgical management of breast carcinoma using a paravertebral block.