Although the appendectomy is in its early stages, it is emerging as one of the newest growth avenues for Intuitive Surgical’s ...

In the antibiotics groups, the percentage of patients who underwent subsequent appendectomy was 40% (95% confidence interval [CI], 36 to 44) at 1 year and 46% (95% CI, 42 to 49) at 2 years (Figure 1); ...

LA has become the approach of choice by many surgeons in the treatment of both simple and complicated cases of acute appendicitis. The rate of LA between 1998 and 2008 increased from 20.6% to 70.8%, ...

A randomized controlled trial has brought into question the established medical doctrine that appendicitis should be treated by surgical removal, finding that a level of success can alternatively be ...

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 ...

The use of computed tomography (CT) and laparoscopic surgery significantly increased in the management of patients with acute appendicitis. Non-operative management and laparoscopic surgery led to a ...