Erschienen in:
11.04.2023 | Correspondence
Incidence and severity of pediatric appendicitis during the COVID‑19 pandemic
verfasst von:
Paula Rosanna Quaglietta, Reto M. Baertschiger
Erschienen in:
World Journal of Pediatrics
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Ausgabe 7/2023
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Excerpt
We read the article by del Giorgio et al. in the March 2023 issue of
World Journal of Pediatrics with great interest [
1]. The authors evaluated the incidence of pediatric appendicitis at their institutions during the first year of the pandemic compared to a four-year control period. They found an increased incidence of appendicitis but did not find differences between study groups for length of stay, age and sex distributions, and proportion of complicated appendicitis. …