A 60-year-old female underwent an appendectomy for acute appendicitis with perforation. It appeared to be a straightforward case. There was not much contamination and it was localized. The pathology ...

From our institutional surgical database, we identified retrospectively 778 patients who underwent appendectomy between January 1 and December 31 of the years 1995 and 1998. Twelve (2%) of these ...

Jay N. Yepuri, MD, MS, FACG, is a board-certified gastroenterologist and member of the Digestive Health Associates of Texas Board of Directors and Executive Committee. You can sometimes treat ...

Laparotomy is the medical term for a type of open surgery of the abdomen. It allows surgeons to view the abdominal organs to diagnose and treat a variety of conditions. Here, we look at the types and ...

BOTH the acute and chronic forms of regional enteritis have been well known pathologic entities in adults for the past twenty years. However, surprisingly little has been written about either form of ...

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 ...

Yes, appendicitis can sometimes be cured with antibiotics. This depends on the specific type of appendicitis and how advanced it is. Doctors may recommend antibiotic treatment for appendicitis if the ...

Appendectomy alongside standard medical therapy reduced relapse rates in patients with ulcerative colitis who were in remission compared with standard medical therapy alone, a randomized superiority ...