Appendicectomy in older patients with acute appendicitis is not an indication for routine colonoscopy

Int J Colorectal Dis. 2019 May;34(5):945. doi: 10.1007/s00384-019-03264-8. Epub 2019 Feb 14.

Authors

Hytham K S Hamid¹, Ahmed O Hamedelneel²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Soba University Hospital, Khartoum, Sudan. [email protected].
² Department of Accident and Emergency, St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust, Prescot, UK.

PMID: 30762096
DOI: 10.1007/s00384-019-03264-8

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Acute Disease
Aged
Appendectomy*
Appendicitis / diagnostic imaging
Appendicitis / surgery*
Cecal Neoplasms / diagnosis
Cecal Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
Cecal Neoplasms / epidemiology
Colonoscopy*
Humans
Incidence
Tomography, X-Ray Computed