Diagnosis and treatment of acute appendicitis: 2020 update of the WSES Jerusalem guidelines

Diagnosis and treatment of acute appendicitis: 2020 update of the WSES Jerusalem guidelines

Abstract Background and aims Acute appendicitis (AA) is among the most common causes of acute abdominal pain. Diagnosis of AA is still challenging and some controversies on its management are still present among different settings and practice patterns worldwide. In July 2015, the World Society of E...

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Main Authors: Salomone Di Saverio, Mauro Podda, Belinda De Simone, Marco Ceresoli, Goran Augustin, Alice Gori, Marja Boermeester, Massimo Sartelli, Federico Coccolini, Antonio Tarasconi, Nicola de’ Angelis, Dieter G. Weber, Matti Tolonen, Arianna Birindelli, Walter Biffl, Ernest E. Moore, Michael Kelly, Kjetil Soreide, Jeffry Kashuk, Richard Ten Broek, Carlos Augusto Gomes, Michael Sugrue, Richard Justin Davies, Dimitrios Damaskos, Ari Leppäniemi, Andrew Kirkpatrick, Andrew B. Peitzman, Gustavo P. Fraga, Ronald V. Maier, Raul Coimbra, Massimo Chiarugi, Gabriele Sganga, Adolfo Pisanu, Gian Luigi de’ Angelis, Edward Tan, Harry Van Goor, Francesco Pata, Isidoro Di Carlo, Osvaldo Chiara, Andrey Litvin, Fabio C. Campanile, Boris Sakakushev, Gia Tomadze, Zaza Demetrashvili, Rifat Latifi, Fakri Abu-Zidan, Oreste Romeo, Helmut Segovia-Lohse, Gianluca Baiocchi, David Costa, Sandro Rizoli, Zsolt J. Balogh, Cino Bendinelli, Thomas Scalea, Rao Ivatury, George Velmahos, Roland Andersson, Yoram Kluger, Luca Ansaloni, Fausto Catena
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-04-01
Series:World Journal of Emergency Surgery
Subjects:
Acute appendicitis
Appendicitis guidelines
Jerusalem guidelines
Consensus conference
Alvarado score
Appendicitis diagnosis score
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13017-020-00306-3

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