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 ...

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 ...

Acute appendicitis is the sudden and severe inflammation of the appendix. It can cause pain in the abdomen, and this pain may occur quickly and worsen within hours. The appendix is a narrow tube that ...

In patients with uncomplicated appendicitis, initial antibiotic treatment yielded a true recurrence rate of nearly 38% over 10 years. More than half of the patients treated with antibiotics avoided ...

IT IS my impression, derived from over twenty years of experience in surgery, that acute appendicitis rarely occurs during menstruation. The records of three hospitals in the Boston area were studied ...

Acute appendicitis is a sudden inflammation of the appendix, which is a small pouch on the right side of your abdomen. When your appendix gets blocked by hardened stool, infection or swelling, it ...

For patients with uncomplicated acute appendicitis, the noninferiority of oral antibiotics alone compared with a combination of intravenous and oral antibiotics could not be demonstrated in a ...

Appendicitis occurs when the appendix becomes inflamed and filled with pus, often causing pain that starts near the belly button and shifts to the lower right abdomen. It requires prompt medical ...