 Appendicitis
"Appendicitis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Acute inflammation of the APPENDIX. Acute appendicitis is classified as simple, gangrenous, or perforated.
| Descriptor ID |
D001064
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
C01.539.463.099 C06.405.205.099 C06.405.469.110.207
|
| Concept/Terms |
Ruptured Appendicitis- Ruptured Appendicitis
- Appendicitis, Ruptured
- Perforated Appendicitis
- Appendicitis, Perforated
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Appendicitis".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Appendicitis".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Appendicitis" by people in this website by year, and whether "Appendicitis" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2016 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2022 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
To return to the timeline, click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Appendicitis" by people in Profiles.
-
Analysis of Outcomes Associated With Outpatient Management of Nonoperatively Treated Patients With Appendicitis. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Jul 01; 5(7):e2220039.
-
Patient Factors Associated With Appendectomy Within 30 Days of Initiating Antibiotic Treatment for Appendicitis. JAMA Surg. 2022 Mar 01; 157(3):e216900.
-
Antibiotics versus Appendectomy for Acute Appendicitis - Longer-Term Outcomes. N Engl J Med. 2021 12 16; 385(25):2395-2397.
-
Lopes Vendrami C, Xu X, McCarthy RJ, Shin JS, Goodhartz LA, Horowitz JM, Kim D, Miller FH. Body mass index as an indicator of the likelihood of ultrasound visualization of the appendix in pregnant women with suspicion of appendicitis. Abdom Radiol (NY). 2020 09; 45(9):2637-2646.
-
Floyd TL, Orkin BA, Kowal-Vern A. Cecal wedge resection appendectomy for the management of appendiceal polyps. Tech Coloproctol. 2016 Nov; 20(11):781-784.
-
Gottlieb M, Hunter B. Are Antibiotics a Feasible Alternative to Surgery for Acute Appendicitis? Ann Emerg Med. 2017 03; 69(3):362-363.
-
Fair BA, Kubasiak JC, Janssen I, Myers JA, Millikan KW, Deziel DJ, Luu MB. The impact of operative timing on outcomes of appendicitis: a National Surgical Quality Improvement Project analysis. Am J Surg. 2015 Mar; 209(3):498-502.
-
Bradly DP, Gallegos M, Jakate S. Appendiceal mass in an adolescent with cystic fibrosis. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2009 Oct; 7(10):A24.
-
Singh AK, Desai H, Novelline RA. Emergency MRI of acute pelvic pain: MR protocol with no oral contrast. Emerg Radiol. 2009 Mar; 16(2):133-41.
-
Singh AK, Hahn PF, Gervais D, Vijayraghavan G, Mueller PR. Dropped appendicolith: CT findings and implications for management. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2008 Mar; 190(3):707-11.
|
People  People who have written about this concept. _
Similar Concepts
People who have written about this concept.
_
Top Journals
Top journals in which articles about this concept have been published.
|