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  • Title: Wound sepsis after cholecystectomy: effect of incidental appendicectomy.
    Author: Pollock AV, Evans M.
    Journal: Br Med J; 1977 Jan 01; 1(6052):20-2. PubMed ID: 831968.
    Abstract:
    The records of a consecutive series of 224 patients were analysed to discover the effect of incidental appendicectomy on the wound sepsis rate after cholecystectomy. One hundred and five patients had had a cholecystectomy alone and 119 cholecystectomy with incidental appendicectomy. The incidence of wound sepsis in patients not given adequate antibiotic prophylaxis was significantly lower (16-1%) when cholecystectomy alone was carried out than when the appendix was removed as well (41-1%).
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