Introduction: Acute appendicitis is the most common abdominal surgical emergency worldwide, with peak incidence occurring between the second and third decades of life. Appendectomy, performed for over ...

In late August 2019, Shannon Harness awoke to serious pain in the lower right side of his abdomen — a telltale sign of appendicitis. Harness booked it to the emergency room of the only hospital in the ...

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 ...

More than half of people who receive antibiotics to treat appendicitis do not see their disease come back 10 years after the initial illness, a new study shows. The data come from one of the first ...