ReviewCureus2024
Efficacy of Antibiotic Therapy Alone Versus Antibiotics With Percutaneous Drainage in Periappendiceal Abscess: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Review in Cureus, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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1 citing paper in PubMed.
- Endoscopic drainage and one-stage titanium clip closure for appendiceal root abscess mimicking cecal submucosal tumor: a case report.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
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Abstract
Acute appendicitis is one of the most common surgical emergencies. Simple appendicitis can be a complicated periappendiceal abscess. Despite the fact that there are several treatment options for periappendiceal abscesses, there is no consensus on the optimal treatment method; some surgeons prefer appendectomy, while others prefer relying on non-operative approaches using antibiotic therapy with or without percutaneous drainage. The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of antibiotics-only therapy to antibiotics plus percutaneous drainage in the management of periappendicular abscess. An electronic database and clinical trial register search was performed on the PubMed, EMBASE, SCOPUS, ClinicalTrials.gov, and Cochrane libraries. After the removal of duplicate records, the studies went through a screening process to determine their eligibility. A meta-analysis was performed for the length of hospital stay and treatment success rate for the comparison groups (antibiotics-only and antibiotics plus percutaneous drainage), in which the mean difference with a 95% confidence interval, and odds ratio using the Mantel-Haenszel method were calculated. The heterogeneity among the studies was assessed using the I
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