Clinical practice. Acute appendicitis--appendectomy or the "antibiotics first" strategy

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Erratum in

Acute appendicitis--appendectomy or the "antibiotics first" strategy.
[No authors listed] [No authors listed] N Engl J Med. 2015 Jun 4;372(23):2274. doi: 10.1056/NEJMx150021. N Engl J Med. 2015. PMID: 26039618 No abstract available.

No abstract available

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"?
Di Saverio S, Sartelli M, Catena F, Birindelli A, Tugnoli G. Di Saverio S, et al. 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.