Background The traditional fear that every case of acute appendicitis will eventually
perforate has led to the generally accepted emergency appendicectomy with minimized …

Unequivocal international guidelines regarding the diagnosis and management of patients
with acute appendicitis are lacking. The aim of the consensus meeting 2015 of the EAES …

Objective The goal of this systematic review by the American Pediatric Surgical Association
Outcomes and Evidence-Based Practice Committee was to develop recommendations …

The development of deep learning algorithms for complex tasks in digital medicine has
relied on the availability of large labeled training datasets, usually containing hundreds of …

Objective: We sought to describe contemporary presentation, treatment, and outcomes of
patients presenting with acute (A), perforated (P), and gangrenous (G) appendicitis in the …

Purpose This study carried out a meta-analysis to compare immediate surgery (IS) with
conservative treatment (CT) of complicated acute appendicitis (CAA) in children. Methods …

Purpose The aim of the present study was to identify risk factors associated with
postoperative morbidity and major morbidity, with a prolonged length of hospital stay and …

Introduction The aim of the present study was to evaluate the risk factors for postoperative
complications after an appendectomy with special regard to both the time period from …

Background The optimal timing of appendectomy for acute appendicitis has been analyzed
with mixed results. We hypothesized that delayed appendectomy would be associated with …

Background Evidence suggests that operative delay of up to 24 h is not associated with
adverse outcomes among patients undergoing emergent appendectomy. However, the …