Should you drain a perforated appendix?
- 1 December 1978
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in British Journal of Surgery
- Vol. 65 (12), 880-882
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.1800651215
Abstract
One hundred and three consecutive patients undergoing appendicectomy for perforated appendicitis were randomly allocated either to have an intraperitoneal drain inserted or not. The results of this trial lend no support to the advocates of drainage.Keywords
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