Is concomitant preventive appendectomy in childhood justified?
Biewald, W.; Harndt, O.K.
Langenbecks Archiv für Chirurgie. Supplement. Kongressband. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chirurgie. Kongress 1991: 249-251
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0942-2854 PMID: 1793912 Document Number: 374551
Appendicitis is an entity without specific symptoms. Multiple false diagnoses result from this, especially in childhood, in pregnancy, and in old age. We discuss whether incidental protective appendectomy is recommended in childhood in small bowel obstructions due to intussusception, comparing the data obtained from 100 children who were appendectomized with those of 32 children who were not.