Treatment Strategies and Perforation Rate of Acute Appendicitis During the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Swedish Cohort Study.

J Surg Res · 2022 · PMC9283669 · PMID 36054956

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Hypothetically, this difference could have been due to pandemic-associated resource reallocation, or it may simply reflect an increasing trend towards conservative management of appendicitis.

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