Surgery sooner rather than later better for children with perforated appendicitis
Monday, February 21, 2011 - 17:00
in Health & Medicine
For children with a perforated appendix, early appendectomy appears to reduce the time away from normal activities and has fewer adverse events as compared to another common option, the interval appendectomy, which is performed several weeks after diagnosis, according to a report published online first in the Archives of Surgery. The paper will appear in the June 2011 print issue of the journal.