To Your Health: NLM update: Appendicitis: Antibiotic treatment or surgery?

Listen to the To Your Health: NLM update on Appendicitis: Antibiotic treatment or surgery?. The transcript is also available. Patients with uncomplicated appendicitis may recover similarly if they receive antibiotic treatments rather than surgery to remove their appendix, suggests a recent study from Finland and an accompanying editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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