The treatment of acute appendicitis in two age-based groups during COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective experience in a COVID-19 referral hospital.

Giorgio LisiCampanelli MichelaMastrangeli Maria RosariaSpoletini DomenicoMenditto RosaGrande SimonaBoccuzzi MassimilianoGrande Michele

Published in: International journal of colorectal disease (2021)

Our data highlighted a partial delay in diagnosis in the elderly group, and an increase in complicated appendicitis also demonstrated by the need for conversion to laparotomy despite no significant relationship between these findings and the histologic examination was reported.

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