Clinical practice. Acute appendicitis--appendectomy or the "antibiotics first" strategy
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Clinical practice. Acute appendicitis--appendectomy or the "antibiotics first" strategy
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Acute appendicitis--appendectomy or the "antibiotics first" strategy.N Engl J Med. 2015 Jun 4;372(23):2274. doi: 10.1056/NEJMx150021. N Engl J Med. 2015. PMID: 26039618 No abstract available.
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Renewed Interest in Acute Appendicitis: Are Antibiotics Non-Inferior to Surgery or Possibly Clinically Superior? What Is Long-Term Follow-Up and Natural Evolution of Appendicitis Treated Conservatively with "Antibiotics First"?Surg Infect (Larchmt). 2016 Jun;17(3):376-7. doi: 10.1089/sur.2015.206. Epub 2016 Feb 26. Surg Infect (Larchmt). 2016. PMID: 26918798 No abstract available.
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