Renewed Interest in Acute Appendicitis: Are Antibiotics Non-Inferior to Surgery or Possibly Clinically Superior? What is Long-Term Follow-Up and Natural Evolution of Appendicitis Treated Conservatively with "antibiotics First"?

Surgical Infections

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 376-377

  Di Saverio, Salomone ^a   Sartelli, Massimo ^b   Catena, Fausto ^c   Birindelli, Arianna ^a   Tugnoli, Gregorio ^a  

^a MAGGIORE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Macerata's Hospital   (Italy)

^c Hospital Maggiore of Parma   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDECTOMY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DRUG EFFICACY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; LETTER; LONG TERM CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RECURRENCE RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ACUTE DISEASE; APPENDICITIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS;

EID: 84971277817     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: 15578674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2015.206     Document Type: Letter

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