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Introduction Acute appendicitis represents the commonest cause of acute intra-abdominal pathology. Appendectomy and antibiotics are the mainstay of therapy for appendicitis. Evidence is emerging that antibiotics alone may adequately treat most cases of appendicitis. Decision analysis is a quantitative method of examining alternate treatment strategies. This study describes a modelled decision analysis...
Background/purpose To clarify the role of interval appendectomy (IA) in pediatric patients with acute appendicitis with an appendiceal inflammatory mass or abscess, we histologically analyzed the appendices removed during IA. Patients and methods We treated 355 consecutive pediatric patients with acute appendicitis and reviewed the admission charts of patients who started conservative management...
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