Letter 4: Randomized clinical trial of antibiotic therapy versus appendicectomy as primary treatment of acute appendicitis in unselected patients (Br J Surg 2009; 96: 473–481)

Abstract

What size plate do you want? Semiconducting and plasmonic copper phosphide platelets with sizes tunable from the nanometer to the micrometer scale have been developed, and their photoresponse and photovoltaic activity studied. The size control was achieved by controlling the nucleation density of materials in the reaction system.

Surgery versus Conservative Antibiotic Treatment in Acute Appendicitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

“…However, despite the exciting implications of the aforementioned results, the four RCTs [25,26,27,28] feature several glaring inaccuracies, sharing certain experimental flaws as pointed out by the available literature [30,52,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65]. Generally speaking, the quality of the four studies was quite poor (table 4).…”