The massive inflow of patients with COVID-19 requiring urgent care has overloaded
hospitals in France and impacts the management of other patients. Deferring hospitalization …

Diagnosis of appendicitis is challenging, and some controversies on its management are
still present among different settings and practice patterns worldwide. In April 2020, the …

Being one of the most common causes of the acute abdomen, acute appendicitis (AA) forms
the bread and butter of any general surgeon's practice. With the recent advancements in …

Background: Acute appendicitis in the pediatric population remains a diagnostic challenge
for clinicians. Despite many biochemical markers, imaging modalities and scoring systems …

Appendicitis is a common differential diagnosis of right lower quadrant pain. Clinical
evaluation alone results in high negative appendicectomy rates. Alvarado scoring is the …

Background Acute appendicitis, the most common cause of acute surgical abdomen, is
associated with intra-abdominal complications, such as perforation, that increase morbidity …

Importance Acute appendicitis is a common cause of abdominal pain and the most common
reason for emergency surgery in several countries. Increased cases during summer months …

Acute appendicitis is one of the most common causes of abdominal emergencies. We
investigated the feasibility of a neural-network-based diagnosis algorithm of appendicitis by …

Background In the last decades, several clinical scores have been developed and currently
used to improve the diagnosis and risk management of patients with suspected acute …

Methods: Our study prospectively evaluated AA patients that were treated in a tertiary
hospital's emergency department. The obtained data were used to calculate Alvarado …