Non-operative treatment of children with simple appendicitis: long-term follow-up (5 years) in a prospective cohort study

Long-term results after non-operative treatment for children with simple appendicitis seem promising, possibly avoiding appendicectomy in 70 per cent of children after a median follow-up of 5 years. The need for delayed appendicectomy more than 2 years after the initial treatment is rare (0–5 per ce...

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Autores principales: . Knaapen, M, Van der Lee, J H, Gaillard, E L, Cense, H A, in ‘t Hof, K H, Kneepkens, C M F, Wijnen, M H, Heij, H A, Bakx, R, van Heurn, L W E, Gorter, R R
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Research Letters
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10364911/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33793731
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjs/znaa052
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author . Knaapen, M
Van der Lee, J H
Gaillard, E L
Cense, H A
in ‘t Hof, K H
Kneepkens, C M F
Wijnen, M H
Heij, H A
Bakx, R
van Heurn, L W E
Gorter, R R
author_facet . Knaapen, M
Van der Lee, J H
Gaillard, E L
Cense, H A
in ‘t Hof, K H
Kneepkens, C M F
Wijnen, M H
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description Long-term results after non-operative treatment for children with simple appendicitis seem promising, possibly avoiding appendicectomy in 70 per cent of children after a median follow-up of 5 years. The need for delayed appendicectomy more than 2 years after the initial treatment is rare (0–5 per cent) and no complications occurred past 1 year, including children who underwent delayed appendicectomy.
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spelling pubmed-103649112023-07-31 Non-operative treatment of children with simple appendicitis: long-term follow-up (5 years) in a prospective cohort study . Knaapen, M Van der Lee, J H Gaillard, E L Cense, H A in ‘t Hof, K H Kneepkens, C M F Wijnen, M H Heij, H A Bakx, R van Heurn, L W E Gorter, R R Br J Surg Research Letters Long-term results after non-operative treatment for children with simple appendicitis seem promising, possibly avoiding appendicectomy in 70 per cent of children after a median follow-up of 5 years. The need for delayed appendicectomy more than 2 years after the initial treatment is rare (0–5 per cent) and no complications occurred past 1 year, including children who underwent delayed appendicectomy. Oxford University Press 2021-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC10364911/ /pubmed/33793731 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjs/znaa052 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of BJS Society Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Research Letters
. Knaapen, M
Van der Lee, J H
Gaillard, E L
Cense, H A
in ‘t Hof, K H
Kneepkens, C M F
Wijnen, M H
Heij, H A
Bakx, R
van Heurn, L W E
Gorter, R R
Non-operative treatment of children with simple appendicitis: long-term follow-up (5 years) in a prospective cohort study
title Non-operative treatment of children with simple appendicitis: long-term follow-up (5 years) in a prospective cohort study
title_full Non-operative treatment of children with simple appendicitis: long-term follow-up (5 years) in a prospective cohort study
title_fullStr Non-operative treatment of children with simple appendicitis: long-term follow-up (5 years) in a prospective cohort study
title_full_unstemmed Non-operative treatment of children with simple appendicitis: long-term follow-up (5 years) in a prospective cohort study
title_short Non-operative treatment of children with simple appendicitis: long-term follow-up (5 years) in a prospective cohort study
title_sort non-operative treatment of children with simple appendicitis: long-term follow-up (5 years) in a prospective cohort study
topic Research Letters
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10364911/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33793731
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjs/znaa052
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