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  1. Department of Surgery, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA

    James R. Korndorffer Jr.

  2. Department of Surgery, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Erika Fellinger

  3. Department of Surgery, Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, NY, USA

    William Reed

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Appendix

Appendix

This document was prepared and revised by the SAGES Guidelines Committee:

James R, Korndorffer, Jr., MD

Erika Fellinger, MD

William Reed, MD

Keith Apelgren, MD

Stephen Haggerty, MD

Geoffrey Kohn, MD

Raymond Price, MD

J. Salameh, MD

Dimitrios Stefanidis, MD

Limaris Barrios, MD

Keenan Berghoff, MD

Simon Bergman, MD

David Earle, MD

Timothy Farrell, MD

Jeffrey Hazey, MD

Steven Heneghan, MD

Thom Lobe, MD

Sumeet Mittal, MD

Jonathan Myers, MD

Wayne Overby, MD

Patrick Reardon, MD

Matthew Ritter, MD

Alan Saber, MD

Kevin Wasco, MD

William Richardson, MD, Co-Chair

Robert Fanelli, MD, Chair

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Korndorffer, J.R., Fellinger, E. & Reed, W. SAGES guideline for laparoscopic appendectomy. Surg Endosc 24, 757–761 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00464-009-0632-y

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