Characteristics of Acute Appendicitis before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Single Center Experience.

Emerg Med Int · 2022 · PMC8894033 · PMID 35251714

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In the COVID-19 era, there was an incidence of 22.99% of perforated appendicitis and 17.08% in the pre-COVID-19 era ( p =0.085) which is weakly significant.

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