Studies in pediatric patients suggest that acute appendicitis can be managed electively following antibiotic therapy, which challenges the time-honored practice of prompt appendectomy. To determine ...

All patients presenting to the Emergency Department with a possible diagnosis of acute appendicitis between November 1998 and October 1999, at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, were ...

ACUTE appendicitis in children displays certain features in its pathology, clinical course, diagnosis and treatment, which vary considerably from those of the disease in adults. The development of ...

It can be argued that in US Emergency Departments, the diagnosis of acute appendicitis has shifted from clinical impression to radiographic confirmation, even for patients for whom the diagnosis is ...

Appendiceal anomalies, including duplication and malposition, represent a rare but clinically significant subset of congenital variations frequently encountered during surgical evaluation of acute ...

In the antibiotics groups, the percentage of patients who underwent subsequent appendectomy was 40% (95% confidence interval [CI], 36 to 44) at 1 year and 46% (95% CI, 42 to 49) at 2 years (Figure 1); ...

Antibiotic management of acute uncomplicated appendicitis among children was inferior to appendectomy, a randomized non-inferiority trial showed. For nearly 850 children with available primary outcome ...

Diagnostic uncertainty surrounding appendicitis could turn into a small bump in the road, according to a study showing a high correlation between appendicitis and pain on driving over speed bumps on ...

Researchers at the University of Virginia have recently presented a case series pointing to a potential association between infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) ...