Acute appendicitis: Acute appendicitis or acute appendicectomy?

[...]morbidity from the more conservative approach was higher due to more readmissions, and more patients continued to complain of pain in the right iliac fossa. 3 Secondly, 37 of 45 patients with recurrent or chronic appendicitis had iron deposits in their appendixes, a histological finding that correlated with recent pain in the right iliac fossa. 4 In 119 patients with mesenteric adenitis, cure by surgery was also likely for those whose appendixes were positive for iron.