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Antibiotic Treatment for Uncomplicated Acute Appendicitis in Children.
Am Fam Physician
January 2025
Baldwin Health Family Medicine Residency, Foley, Alabama.
Clinicopathological differences between patients with schistosomal appendicitis and non schistosomal appendicitis: A retrospectively study of past ten years.
World J Clin Cases
January 2025
Department of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated of Wannan Medical College, Wuhu 241001, Anhui Province, China.
Background: Chronic schistosomiasis causes multiple organ and multiple system diseases, especially the digestive system. Schistosome eggs are mainly deposited in the stomach, liver and colorectal, but a few eggs are deposited in the appendix and cause disease. At present, there are few studies on schistosomal appendicitis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFApplication of the Diagnosis Grouping System to Pediatric Emergency Department Encounters.
Hosp Pediatr
January 2025
Division of Emergency Medicine, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.
Objective: Diagnosis grouping systems are essential for health services and epidemiological and health outcomes research. The Diagnosis Grouping System (DGS) was developed to classify International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision diagnosis codes for pediatric emergency department (ED) encounters. We applied and compared the DGS to large samples of US ED encounters for children using 3 large health system databases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSurgical Management of Acute Appendicitis in a Patient with Diagnosed but "Unprepared" Pheochromocytoma: A Case Report.
Sisli Etfal Hastan Tip Bul
December 2024
Department of General Surgery, University of Health Sciences Türkiye, Sisli Hamidiye Etfal Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Türkiye.
Pheochromocytoma is a rare tumor originating from the adrenal gland, characterized by the secretion of catecholamines. Due to the risk of hypertensive crises associated with catecholamine release, surgical procedures in pheochromocytoma patients are risky. In this case report, laparoscopic appendectomy for acute appendicitis in a patient who has pheochromocytoma will be presented.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOptimizing the Use of Computed Tomography for Appendicitis Diagnosis in the Pediatric Emergency Department Through the Quality Improvement Methodology.
Cureus
December 2024
Pediatrics, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, USA.
Background: Acute appendicitis is one of the most common causes of an acute abdomen among pediatric patients. The diagnosis of appendicitis is challenging due to the nonspecific presentation. Diagnosis is based on historical, physical, and serologic information as well as right lower quadrant ultrasound (RLQ US).
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