It can be argued that in US Emergency Departments, the diagnosis of acute appendicitis has shifted from clinical impression to radiographic confirmation, even for patients for whom the diagnosis ...

Crohn's disease is a progressive type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that results in chronic inflammation throughout the gastrointestinal tract, most commonly affecting the terminal ileum and ...

Although rare, perforation of pyometra should be kept as one of the differential diagnosis in an elderly woman with an acute abdomen. A high index of suspicion is required to make a correct ...

A: Patients with Crohn’s disease are at risk of multiple vitamin deficiencies because of active disease and subsequent impaired absorption (particularly if the terminal ileum is affected ... for iron ...

Almost half of children who require surgery for complicated appendicitis can safely complete their recovery ... more quickly and didn’t require readmission to hospital. “Acute post-operative care at ...

Background Acute appendicitis is a local intestinal inflammation with unclear origin. The aim was to test whether bacteria in appendicitis differ in composition to bacteria found in caecal biopsies ...

The three pediatric cases of gallbladder torsion complicated by acute appendicitis reported in this study share ... while the second case's preoperative CT scans suggested possible appendiceal ...

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