WSES Jerusalem guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of acute appendicitis

Di Saverio, Salomone; Birindelli, Arianna; Denis Kelly, Micheal; Catena, Fausto; Weber, Dieter; Sartelli, Massimo; Sugrue, Michael; De Moya, Mark; Augusto Gomes, Carlos; Bhangu, Aneel; Agresta, Ferdinando; E. Moore, Ernest; Søreide, Kjetil; A. Griffiths, Ewen; de Castro, Steve; L. Kashuk, Jeffry; Kluger, Yoram; Leppäniemi, Ari; Ansaloni, Luca; Andersson, Manne; Coccolini, Federico; Coimbra, Raúl; Selvan Gurusamy, Kurinchi; Cesare Campanile, Fabio; Biffl, Walter; Chiara, Osvaldo; A. Moore, Fred; B. Peitzman, Andrew; Pereira Fraga, Gustavo; W. da Costa, David; V. Maier, Ronald; Rizoli, Sandro; J. Balogh, Zsolt; Bendinelli, Cino; Cirocchi, Roberto; Tonini, Valeria; Piccinini, Alice; Tugnoli, Gregorio; Jovine, Elio; Persiani, Roberto; Biondi, Antonio; M. Scalea, Thomas; F. Stahel, Philip; R. Ivatury, Rao; C. Velmahos, George; E. Andersson, Roland

doi:10.1186/s13017-016-0090-5

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WSES Jerusalem guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of acute appendicitis

Published in World Journal of Emergency Surgery • Jul 18, 2016

Authors:

Salomone Di Saverio

Arianna Birindelli

Micheal Denis Kelly

Abstract

Acute appendicitis (AA) is among the most common cause of acute abdominal pain. Diagnosis of AA is challenging; a variable combination of clinical signs and symptoms has been used together with laboratory findings in several scoring systems proposed for suggesting the probability of AA and the possi...

Subject

Medicine

Appendicitis

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