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

Di Saverio, Salomone; Podda, Mauro; De Simone, Belinda; Ceresoli, Marco; Augustin, Goran; Gori, Alice; Boermeester, Marja; Sartelli, Massimo; Coccolini, Federico; Tarasconi, Antonio; de’ Angelis, Nicola; G. Weber, Dieter; Tolonen, Matti; Birindelli, Arianna; Biffl, Walter; E. Moore, Ernest; Kelly, Michael; Soreide, Kjetil; Kashuk, Jeffry; Ten Broek, Richard; Augusto Gomes, Carlos; Sugrue, Michael; Justin Davies, Richard; Damaskos, Dimitrios; Leppäniemi, Ari; Kirkpatrick, Andrew; B. Peitzman, Andrew; P. Fraga, Gustavo; V. Maier, Ronald; Coimbra, Raul; Chiarugi, Massimo; Sganga, Gabriele; Pisanu, Adolfo; Luigi de’ Angelis, Gian; Tan, Edward; Van Goor, Harry; Pata, Francesco; Di Carlo, Isidoro; Chiara, Osvaldo; Litvin, Andrey; C. Campanile, Fabio; Sakakushev, Boris; Tomadze, Gia; Demetrashvili, Zaza; Latifi, Rifat; Abu-Zidan, Fakri; Romeo, Oreste; Segovia-Lohse, Helmut; Baiocchi, Gianluca; Costa, David; Rizoli, Sandro; J. Balogh, Zsolt; Bendinelli, Cino; Scalea, Thomas; Ivatury, Rao; Velmahos, George; Andersson, Roland; Kluger, Yoram; Ansaloni, Luca; Catena, Fausto

doi:10.1186/s13017-020-00306-3

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

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Authors:

Salomone Di Saverio

Mauro Podda

Belinda De Simone

Abstract

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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