Emergency Medicine: Open Access

Emergency Medicine: Open Access
Open Access

ISSN: 2165-7548

Research Article - (2015) Volume 5, Issue 3

Assesment of the Vasoactive Intestinal Polypeptide (VIP) in Morphologically Normal Appendices Removed from Patients with Clinical Diagnosis of Acute Appendicitis

Thiago Vinicius Villar Barroso, Paulo Guilherme Oliveira Sales and Andy Petroianu*
Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
*Corresponding Author: Andy Petroianu, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Surgery, Avenida Afonso Pena 1626 - Apto. 1901, Belo Horizonte, MG 30130-005, Brazil, Fax: 55 31 32747744 Email:

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