
Current Management of Acute Appendicitis: Antibiotics or Surgical Intervention
JAMA Clinical Reviews
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The Difference Between Men and Women With Right Lower Quadrupane?
In our country, everybody seems to get imaging if they walk near an emergency room. In men that are 25 years old, gosh, you don't need much else other than history. The differential is so narrow in young men that there aren't a lot of things got the right history. Women are different, because gyn organs on the right can cause a variety of inflammatory conditions that present with right lower quadrupane. So i think particularly fertile women, it's a tough diagnosis. It used to be said that up to forty % of women, you'd have a misdiagnosis of appendicitis Because they have so many other issues in the right lower quadrant that confuse the
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