Is a One Night Delay of Surgery Safe in Patients With Acute Appendicitis?

Jae Min LeeBeom Seok KwakYoung Jin Park

Published in: Annals of coloproctology (2018)

Advanced pathology and postoperative complication rate were associated with overall elapsed time from symptom onset to surgery rather than in-hospital elapse time. Therefore, a short-term delay of an appendectomy should be acceptable.

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