2022
DOI: 10.2478/prolas-2022-0092
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Surgical and non-surgical treatment of paediatric appendicitis: can algorithms help us to predict perforation?

Abstract: The recent interest in and evidence of non-surgical treatment with antibiotic therapy has led to the recurring issue of differentiating acute no-complicated appendicitis (AnA) and acute complicated appendicitis (AcA) when these are presented in an emergency department. To create the initial version of an acute appendicitis (AA) diagnostic and treatment algorithm, we analysed treatment results of 178 children with AnA and AcA treated at the Children’s Clinical University Hospital in Rīga, in the period between … Show more

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