Citation: Fawaz D Alshammari, Hanan A Oreiby, Hussain Gadelkarim Ahmed, Khalid Alshaghdali, Jerold C Alcantara, Gamal Mohamed Elawad Ahmed, Sara A Seifeldin, Emad Abboh Abdallah Abboh, Waleed Mansi Al Shammari, Fawzia Mutasim M Al Tayeeb, Bandar S Al Saif, Ali Ahmed Al Qahtani, Samir Abdulkarim Alharbi, Ibtihag Siddig Elnaem. The common motives for appendectomy in Hail Region Saudi Arabia[J]. AIMS Public Health, 2020, 7(1): 114-122. doi: 10.3934/publichealth.2020011
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