IS IT POSSIBLE TO CURE ACUTE APPENDICITIS WITHOUT SURGERY?


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Abstract

The obtained results give additional opportunities for the antibiotic treatment of acute appendicitis in patients, who had refused from surgery, and in patients which had severe concomitant diseases because nonperforated forms of acute appendicitis respond well to antibiotic therapy.

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N. Krylov

I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University

Email: kfh@mma.ru
Professor, MD

A. Samokhvalov

I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University

Candidate of Medical Sciences

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