Abdominal pain is among the most common reasons children are taken to the emergency department. A small proportion of them usually have appendicitis, and timely detection is essential.

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 ...

"Children with abdominal pain are a diagnostic conundrum. On the one hand those who have appendicitis need to be diagnosed in a timely manner, but on the other hand the most common diagnostic tool we ...

In a new study published in the journal The Lancet, researchers have explored the possibility of treating acute, non-perforated appendicitis in children with antibiotics instead of surgery.

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Although no one ever wants a child to have an unnecessary operation, children across the globe still die or have severe morbidity due to inadequate access to surgical care, and some of those are dying ...

Background: Recent literature supports the use of CT for all patients with right lower quadrant pain to improve diagnostic ... in patients for whom appendicitis is included in the differential ...

There is no consensus regarding the optimal treatment for children with perforated appendicitis. [5] In fact, much heterogeneity exists among pediatric surgeons regarding choice of antibiotics ...

The study raises many new questions. There is still reason to believe that some children with appendicitis could be effectively treated with antibiotics and may not even require hospitalisation.

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