Appendicitis is a common condition, occurring in 250,000 patients every year in the United
States and accounting for an estimated 1 million hospital days per year. Acute appendicitis …

Acute appendicitis (AA) remains one of the most common surgical emergencies in the
United States with over 250,000 cases diagnosed each year. Lifetime risk of developing AA …

Background: Laparoscopic surgery has been proposed to have diagnostic and therapeutic
advantages over conventional surgery. The purpose of this article is to present a recently …

Background The optimal diagnostics and treatment of acute appendicitis continues to be a
challenge. We evaluated the implementation of the guideline “diagnostics and treatment in …

We compared the results of concurrently performed laparoscopic versus open
appendectomy as treatments for suspected acute appendicitis. The 68 laparoscopic …

Hypothesis Computed tomography (CT) and ultrasonography (US) do not improve the
overall diagnostic accuracy for acute appendicitis. Design Retrospective review. Setting …

Background The use of laparoscopic appendectomy for complicated appendicitis is
controversial. Outcomes were compared between patients who had complicated …

Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: College of Medicine and King Khalid University
Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Materials and Methods: The surgical and histological data of …

Background: Ever since laparoscopy was first applied to the treatment of appendicitis, a
controversy has existed as to whether the acknowledged benefits of a minimally invasive …

Appendicitis is the most common cause of intra-abdominal surgical emergency in the
Western world, 1 and its differential diagnosis is often challenging because of several other …