Antibiotic management of acute uncomplicated appendicitis among children was inferior to appendectomy, a randomized non-inferiority trial showed. For nearly 850 children with available primary outcome ...

Appendectomy may be a useful addition to medical therapy for preventing relapse of ulcerative colitis among patients in remission. At 1 year, 36% of patients in the appendectomy group had a relapse ...

An appendectomy is a surgical procedure to remove your appendix, the small tube connected to your large intestine in the lower right side of your belly. It’s not completely clear what role the ...