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 ...

Surgeons should be familiar with surgery of the cecum and appendix because the diseases of this region, especially appendicitis, are the most common indications for surgical exploration.

Estimated geographical and temporal distribution of lung-cancer incidence varied across the four main subtypes worldwide. Our ...

HighlightsTopline data for ATH434-201 randomized, double-blind Phase 2 clinical trial on track for expected release by early February ...

Failure of antibiotics was defined as patients having a subsequent appendicectomy, and failure in the appendicectomy group was defined as patients having a normal appendix identified on pathology. A ...

Background: The appendix has a complicated immune function, and appendectomy may derange the immune system. Studies on the relationship between appendectomy and subsequent inflammatory bowel disease ...

Cells navigating in complex microenvironments frequently encounter narrow spaces that physically challenge migration.

Surgery was performed, finding uterine fibroids and paracolic tumor implants as well as on the omentum, bladder, bowel, ovaries and appendix. Pathology reported a well-differentiated peritoneal ...

1Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. *Corresponding Author: John Paul Shen, Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery, The ...