IS IT POSSIBLE TO CURE ACUTE APPENDICITIS WITHOUT SURGERY?

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4
Year: 
2015

Professor N. Krylov, MD; A. Samokhvalov, Candidate of Medical Sciences

The obtained results give additional opportunities for the antibiotic treatment of acute appendicitis in patients, who had refused from surgery, and in patients which had severe concomitant diseases because nonperforated forms of acute appendicitis respond well to antibiotic therapy.
Keywords: 
acute appendicitis
antibiotic therapy
prognosis

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