Recent studies reveal that the human appendix plays roles in gut microbiota restoration and immunity, contrary to its previous classification as vestigial. The appendix harbors beneficial bacteria ...
Appendiceal cancer is a rare cancer without standardized screening guidelines, risk factors or tumor classifications—a situation that often results in late diagnosis and poor prognosis.
About 90 % of patients with incarcerated obturator hernia experience abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting (3), and half report pain medially and proximally in the thigh during hip internal rotation, ...
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 ...
Background: The coexistence of Crohn's disease (CD) and acute appendicitis (AA) is rare. In this situation, therapeutic experience is lacking and the strategy is paradoxical and intractable.
Copyright: © 2025 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Appendicitis incidence is highest in young people aged 10–30 years, a relatively healthy age group that does not get ...
Objective Possible childhood appendicitis is a common emergency presentation. The exact value of blood tests is debated. This study sought to determine the diagnostic ...