Surgery
Volume 147, Issue 1 , Pages 140-143 , January 2010

Amyand's hernia in the children: A single center experience

  • Levent Cankorkmaz, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Surgery, Medical School of Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Levent Cankorkmaz, MD, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Cumhuriyet University, Kamp's, 58140 Sivas, Turkey.
    • ,
  • Hatice Ozer, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Medical School of Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey
    • ,
  • Cengiz Guney, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Surgery, Medical School of Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey
    • ,
  • Mehmet H. Atalar, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Medical School of Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey
    • ,
  • Mehmet S. Arslan, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Surgery, Medical School of Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey
    • ,
  • Gokhan Koyluoglu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Surgery, Medical School of Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey

,Accepted 29 September 2009.

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PII: S0039-6060(09)00608-4

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.09.038

Surgery
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