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Parasuicide and Appendicectomy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
Abstract
A retrospective case-note study of young women admitted for appendicectomy showed that in those patients who had a normal appendix removed, there was a significantly higher rate of admission for parasuicide, before and after the index admission; 27/184 (∼15%) compared with 17/368 (∼5%) for patients who had an inflamed appendix removed.
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