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 ...
“I'm sure we're going to find out one day that the brain is as worthless as the appendix.” —Scott McClanahan The poor maligned appendix. That worm-like accessory dangling from our intestines has long ...
Appendectomy may be a useful addition to medical therapy for preventing relapse of ulcerative colitis among patients in remission. At 1 year, 36% of patients in the appendectomy group had a relapse ...