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Researchers found that large pediatric centers achieve low rates of delayed diagnosis of appendicitis while also having the lowest rates of CT use.

Abdominal pain is among the most common reasons children are taken to the emergency department. A small proportion of them usually have appendicitis, and timely detection is essential.

Abdominal pain is among the most common reasons children are taken to the emergency department.A small proportion of them usually have appendicitis ...

An interprofessional team at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is transforming CHOP's approach to fetal medicine through a ...

"Children with abdominal pain are a diagnostic conundrum. On the one hand those who have appendicitis need to be diagnosed in a timely manner, but on the other hand the most common diagnostic tool we ...

This was a serendipitous discovery; the scientists were originally looking at adhesive bowel obstruction after appendectomy. The researchers report, “It was when conducting another study that we ...

Antibiotic management of acute uncomplicated appendicitis among children was inferior to appendectomy, a randomized non-inferiority trial showed. For nearly 850 children with available primary outcome ...

In a new study published in the journal The Lancet, researchers have explored the possibility of treating acute, non-perforated appendicitis in children with antibiotics instead of surgery.

Though its role is unknown, it can become infected, resulting in acute appendicitis, which, if not detected and treated early, can lead to serious consequences. Though the symptoms and signs of acute ...

A failure was also counted in either treatment group if any other subsequent appendicitis-related procedure requiring general anaesthesia was needed. Finally, the non-inferiority statistics were ...