Acute appendicitis in the COVID-19 era: A complicated situation?

• Acute appendicitis is the most common intra-abdominal surgical emergency in the world. • Null hypothesis of no difference in the number of cases of complicated appendicitis. • What impact did the government's ‘Stay at Home’ message have? • Increasing body of evidence to support non-operative...

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Autores principales: Bowen, Joel M., Sheen, Jonathon R.C., Whitmore, Helen, Wright, Chloe, Bowling, Kirk
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
Materias:
Cross-sectional Study
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8252704/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34230852
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2021.102536
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author Bowen, Joel M.
Sheen, Jonathon R.C.
Whitmore, Helen
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Bowling, Kirk
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description • Acute appendicitis is the most common intra-abdominal surgical emergency in the world. • Null hypothesis of no difference in the number of cases of complicated appendicitis. • What impact did the government's ‘Stay at Home’ message have? • Increasing body of evidence to support non-operative treatment in certain cases. • A significantly higher rate of complicated cases found in the COVID era.
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spelling pubmed-82527042021-07-02 Acute appendicitis in the COVID-19 era: A complicated situation? Bowen, Joel M. Sheen, Jonathon R.C. Whitmore, Helen Wright, Chloe Bowling, Kirk Ann Med Surg (Lond) Cross-sectional Study • Acute appendicitis is the most common intra-abdominal surgical emergency in the world. • Null hypothesis of no difference in the number of cases of complicated appendicitis. • What impact did the government's ‘Stay at Home’ message have? • Increasing body of evidence to support non-operative treatment in certain cases. • A significantly higher rate of complicated cases found in the COVID era. Elsevier 2021-07-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8252704/ /pubmed/34230852 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2021.102536 Text en © 2021 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of IJS Publishing Group Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
spellingShingle Cross-sectional Study
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Acute appendicitis in the COVID-19 era: A complicated situation?
title Acute appendicitis in the COVID-19 era: A complicated situation?
title_full Acute appendicitis in the COVID-19 era: A complicated situation?
title_fullStr Acute appendicitis in the COVID-19 era: A complicated situation?
title_full_unstemmed Acute appendicitis in the COVID-19 era: A complicated situation?
title_short Acute appendicitis in the COVID-19 era: A complicated situation?
title_sort acute appendicitis in the covid-19 era: a complicated situation?
topic Cross-sectional Study
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8252704/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34230852
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2021.102536
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