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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">2443</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7324/IJCRR.2018.1051</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Interval Appendectomy vs Conservative Management Alone - A Therapeutic Dilemma - A Retrospective Comparative study at Chennai Medical College Hospital and Research Centre -__ampersandsignnbsp; Irungalur, a Rural Tertiary Care Centre in South India&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Murugan</surname><given-names>R.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Padma</surname><given-names>S.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Senthilkumaran</surname><given-names>M.</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>15</day><month>03</month><year>2018</year></pub-date><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>1</fpage><lpage>6</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Background: Acute appendicitis is the most common cause of __ampersandsignldquo;acute abdomen.__ampersandsignrdquo; In the 2 to 6 % of cases if not treated early it may develop in to an appendiceal mass. Conventionally conservative treatment followed by interval appendectomy is so far followed. Recent studies discourage the role of interval appendectomy. Hence our study is focused on the pros and cons of interval appendectomy.&#13;
Methods: One hundred and fifty patients with the clinical diagnosis of appendicular mass admitted in our hospital from Jan. 2013 to Dec. 2016 - 4years are divided in to two groups I and II. The group I treated with conservative management followed by interval appendectomy. The group II was treated with conservative management alone with continued follow up. In each the age and sex incidence, rate of the recurrence, complications are studied, statically analysed and interpreted.&#13;
Results: The age and sex distribution in both groups 1 and 2 showed no much deviation. . In the group I recurrence was observed in 13 (17.3%) and in group II 10 patients (13.3%) that means the rest of (83.7%) and (86.7%) does not need any surgical intervention. Major complications like adhesive obstruction (4%), incisional hernia (1.3%), enterocutaneus fistula (2.6%) and sepsis(6.6%)were observed in interval appendectomy group showing the more morbidities following interval appendectomy. Other pathologies like carcinoma caecum (1.3%), mucocele of appendix (1.3%) and chron__ampersandsignrsquo;s disease (1.%) were also encountered.&#13;
Conclusion: In our study for appendiceal mass management, conservative management with interval appendectomy showed the incidence of appreciable major complication and the incidence of recurrence is low. In conservative management alone with continued follow up the incidence of recurrence is less and the complications are not much. Hence we conclude that the conservative management with continued follow up is the management of choice.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Enterocutaneous fistula</kwd><kwd> Interval appendectomy</kwd><kwd> Mucocele of appendix</kwd><kwd> Phlegmon</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
