Interval Appendectomy: An Old New Operation
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A retrospective chart review of 32 patients who underwent laparoscopic interval appendectomy at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario between May 1999 and December 2003 was performed. The age range was 0.5 to 18 years (mean, 11.8 years; median, 11.5 years). The interval time from the acute episode to the laparoscopic interval appendectomy ranged from 1 to 16 weeks (median, 6 weeks). The initial presentations were 11 patients with appendiceal abscess, 9 with appendiceal masses/phlegmons, and 12 patients with an acute but resolving clinical picture with ultrasonographic evidence of appendicitis. There were no wound infections or recurrent intra-abdominal abscesses. The average length of stay was 1.38 days, ranging from same-day discharge (1 patient) to a three-night stay (2 patients). There were no complications related to the laparoscopic technique, confirming reports that laparoscopic interval appendectomy is a technically safe procedure. Pathologic analysis of the appendices demonstrated acute or subacute changes in 14 patients (interval time = 7.9 weeks), chronic changes in 8 (interval time = 8.1 weeks), both acute and chronic changes in 5 (interval time = 8.2 weeks), and no pathologic diagnosis in 6 (interval time = 4.28 weeks). These findings support the need for interval appendectomy, and suggest that laparoscopy is a safe alternative to open appendectomy.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".