The New England Journal of Medicine

Immediate or Deferred Surgery for General Peritonitis Associated with Appendicitis in Adults

Read at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society, Boston, May 31, 1938. From the Fifth (Harvard) Surgical Service, Boston City Hospital, Boston. * Clinical professor of surgery, Harvard ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Prevention and Inhibition of Peritonitis with Especial Reference to the Harm Done by Cathartics in Incipient Peritonitis

Read before the Surgical Section of the Suffolk District Medical Society in conjunction with the Boston Medical Library, Dec. 16, 1909. CHICAGO, Surgeon in Chief of Augustana Hospital and St. Mary's ...
The Spokesman-Review

Ask the doctors: Uncomplicated appendicitis may not require surgery

Dear Doctors: I had a pain on the right side of my abdomen. A CT scan found a perforated appendix with an abscess. I was treated with IV antibiotics, and now I am feeling fine. Do I need to have my ...
L'Unione Sarda

A child died of peritonitis in Sassari, according to prosecutors' consultants. "Surgery would have saved him."

Little Mattia Cabras had a chance of overcoming the crisis and recovering, but he needed immediate surgery; surgery was essential to save his life. These are the conclusions of the experts, heard by ...
Mankato Free Press

Uncomplicated appendicitis may not require surgery

DEAR DOCTORS: I had a pain on the right side of my abdomen. A CT scan found a perforated appendix with an abscess. I was treated with IV antibiotics, and now I am feeling fine. Do I need to have my ...