Prospective Observational Study on acute Appendicitis Worldwide (POSAW)

Massimo Sartelli1, Gian Luca Baiocchi2, Salomone Di Saverio3, Francesco Ferrara4, Francesco M. Labricciosa5, Luca Ansaloni6, Fausto Catena6, Deepak Vijayan7, Ashraf Abbas8, Hariscine K. Abongwa9, John Agboola10, Adamu Ahmed11, Lali Akhmeteli12, Nezih Akkapulu13, Seçkin Akküçük14, Fatih Altıntoprak15, Aurelia L. Andreiev7, Dimitrios Anyfantakis16, B. Atanasov17, Miklosh Bala18, Dimitrios Balalis19, Oussama Baraket20, Giovanni Bellanova21, Marcelo A. Beltrán22, Renato Bessa Melo23, Roberto Bini24, Konstantinos Bouliaris25, Daniele Brunelli26, A Palacios Castillo27, Marco Catani28, Asri Che Jusoh29, Alain Chichom Mefire30, Gianfranco Cocorullo31, Raúl Coimbra32, Elif Çolak33, Sílvia Costa34, Koray Daş35, Samir Delibegović36, Zaza Demetrashvili37, Isidoro Di Carlo38, Nadezda Kiseleva39, Tamer El Zalabany40, Mário Paulo Faro41, Margarida Ferreira42, Gustavo Pereira Fraga43, Mahir Gachabayov44, Wagih Mommtaz Ghnnam45, Teresa Giménez Maurel46, Georgios Gkiokas47, Carlos Augusto Gomes48, Ewen Griffiths49, Ali Güner50, Sanjay Gupta51, Andreas Hecker52, Élcio Shiyoiti Hirano43, Adrien M. Hodonou53, M Hut'an54, Orestis Ioannidis55, Arda Işık56, Г. Б. Ивахов57, Sumita Jain58, Mantas Jokubauskas59, Aleksandar Karamarković60, Saila Kauhanen61, Robin Kaushik51, Alfie J Kavalakat62, Jakub Kenig63, Vladimir Khokha64, Desmond Khor65, Dennis Kim27, Jae Il Kim66, Victor Kong67, Konstantinos Lasithiotakis68, Pedro Leão69, Miguel León70, Andrey Litvin71, Varut Lohsiriwat72, Eudaldo López-Tomassetti Fernández73, Eftychios Lostoridis74, James D. Maciel27, Piotr Major75, Ana Dimova76, Dimitrios K. Manatakis77, Athanasios Marinis78, Aleix Martínez‐Pérez79, Sanjay Marwah80, Michael McFarlane81, Cristian Meșină82, Michał Pędziwiatr83, Nikolaos Michalopoulos84, Evangelos P. Misiakos85, Ali Yasen Y. Mohamedahmed86, R Moldovanu87, Giulia Montori6, Raghuveer Mysore Narayana88, Ionuţ Negoi89, Ioannis Nikolopoulos90, Giuseppe Novelli91, Viktors Novikovs39, Iyiade Olaoye92, Abdelkarim H. Omari93, Carlos A. Ordóñez94, Ouadii Mouaqit95, Zeynep Özkan96, Ajay Kumar Pal97, Gian Marco Palini91, Lars Ivo Partecke98, Francesco Pata99, Gerson Alves Pereira Júnior100, Tadeja Pintar101, Magdalena Pisarska102, C.F. Ploneda-Valencia103, Konstantinos Pouggouras74, Vinod Prabhu104, Ramakrishnapillai Padmakumar105, Jean‐Marc Régimbeau106, Marianne Marchini Reitz107, Daniel Ríos‐Cruz108, Sten Saar109, Boris Sakakushev110, Charalampos Seretis111, А. В. Сажин57, Vishal G Shelat112, M Škrovina113, Dmitry Smirnov114, Charalampos Spyropoulos115, Marcin Strzałka116, Peep Talving109, Ricardo Alessandro Teixeira Gonsaga117, George Theobald7, Gia Tomadze118, Myftar Torba119, Cristian Tranà1, Jan Ulrych120, Mustafa Yener Uzunoğlu14, A Vasilescu121, Savino Occhionorelli122, Aurélien Venara123, András Vereczkei124, Nereo Vettoretto125, N Vlad121, Maciej Walędziak126, Tonguç Utku Yılmaz127, Kuo-Ching Yuan128, Cui Y129, Justas Žilinskas59, Gérard Grelpois106, Fausto Catena8
1Department of Surgery, Macerata Hospital, Macerata, Italy
2Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
3Emergency Surgery, Maggiore Hospital, Bologna, Italy
4General Surgery and Polytrauma, San Carlo Borromeo Hospital, Milan, Italy
5Department of Biomedical Sciences and Public Health, Unit of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health, UNIVPM, Ancona, Italy
6Department of Surgery, Bufalini Hospital, Cesena, Italy
7General Surgery, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK
8Emergency Surgery, Mansoura University Hospital, Mansoura, Egypt
9Emergency Surgery Unit, Maggiore University Hospital, Parma, Italy
10Surgery, Kwara State General Hospital, Ilorin, Kwara, Nigeria
11Surgery, Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital Zaria, Zaria, Nigeria
12Surgery, First University Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia
13General Surgery, Baskent Universitesi Adana Eğitim ve Uygulama Hastanesi, Adana, Turkey
14General Surgery, Training and Research Hospital of Mustafa Kemal University, Hatay, Turkey
15General Surgery, Sakarya University School of Medicine, Sakarya, Turkey
16Primary Care, Primary Health Care Centre of Kissamos, Chania, Greece
17Department of General Surgery, Medical University of Plovdiv, UMHAT Eurohospital, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
18General Surgery, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
19Surgical Department, Agios Savvas Anticaner Hospital, Athens, Greece
20General Surgery, Hospital Habib Bouguefa de Bizerte, Bizerte, Tunisia
21General Surgery, S.S. Annunziata Hospital, Taranto, Italy
22Surgery, Hospital San Juan de Dios de La Serena, La Serena, Chile
23General Surgery, Centro Hospitalar São João, Porto, Portugal
24General and Emergency Surgery, San Giovanni Bosco Hospital, Turin, Italy
25Surgical Department, General Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, Greece
26Chirurgia, Città di Castello Hospital, Città di Castello, Italy
27Department of Surgery, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, USA
28DEA, La Sapienza Università di Roma, Policlinico Umberto I, Rome, Italy
29General Surgery, Kuala Krai Hospital, Kuala Krai, Kelantan, Malaysia
30Surgery and Obstetrics/Gynaecology, Regional Hospital, Limbe, Cameroon
31Emergency Surgery, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Policlinico Paolo Giaccone, Palermo, Italy
32Trauma/Acute Care Surgery, University of California San Diego, San Diego, USA
33General Surgery, Samsun Training and Research Hospital, Samsun, Turkey
34Surgery, CHVNG/E, EPE, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
35General Surgery, Numune Training and Research Hospital, Adana, Turkey
36Colorectal Surgery, Clinic for Surgery, University Clinical Center Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
37Surgery, Kipshidze Central University Hospital, Tbilisi, Georgia
38Surgery, Hamad General Hospital, Doha, Qatar
39General and Emergency Surgery, Riga East University Hospital "Gailezers", Riga, Latvia
40General Surgery, Bahrain Defence Force Hospital, Manama, Bahrain
41Department of General Surgery, Trauma and Emergency Surgery Division, ABC Medical School, Santo Andreì, SP, Brazil
42General Surgery, Hospital Garcia de Orta, Lisbon, Portugal
43Division of Trauma Surgery, Hospital de Clinicas, University of Campinas (Unicamp), Campinas, Brazil
44Department of Abdominal Surgery, Vladimir City Clinical Hospital of Emergency Medicine, Vladimir, Russia
45General Surgery Department, Mansoura Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt
46Cirugía General y del Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet, Zaragoza, Spain
47Second Department of Surgery, Aretaieion University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
48Surgery, Therezinha de Jesus University Hospital, Juiz de Fora, Brazil
49Upper GI/General Surgery, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK
50Department of General Surgery, Karadeniz Technical University, Farabi Hospital, Trabzon, Turkey
51Surgery, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, India
52Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital, Giessen, Germany
53Chirurgie, Chud-Borgou/Alibori, Parakou, Benin
54Surgical Department, Landesklinikum Hainburg, Hainburg An Der Donau, Austria
554th Surgical Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
56General Surgery, Erzincan University Mengucek Gazi Training and Research Hospital, Erzincan, Turkey
57General Surgery, City Hospital #1, Moscow, Russia
58Surgery, S M S Medical college, Jaipur, India
59Department of Surgery, Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kaunas Clinics, Kaunas, Lithuania
60Clinic for Emergency Surgery, Faculty of Medicine University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
61Division of Digestive Surgery and Urology, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
62General Surgery, Jubilee Mission Medical College & Research Institute, Thrissur, India
633rd Department of General Surgery, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
64Emergency surgery, City Hospital, Mozyr, Belarus
65Acute Care Surgery, LAC+USC Medical Center, California, USA
66Department of Surgery, Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital, Goyang, Republic of Korea
67Department of Surgery, Edendale Hospital, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
68General Surgery, Scarborough, York Teaching Hospital, Scarborough, UK
69General Surgery, Colorectal Unit, Hospital de Braga, Braga, Portugal
70General and Digestive Surgery, Hospital Fundación Jimenez Diaz, Madrid, Spain
71Surgical Disciplines, Regional Clinical Hospital, Kaliningrad, Russia
72Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
73Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Insular University Hospital of Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain
741St Department of Surgery, Kavala General Hospital, Kavala, Greece
752nd Department of Surgery, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
76Clinic of surgery, Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
77Surgical Department, Konstantopouleio General Hospital, Athens, Greece
78First Department of Surgery, Tzaneio, Piraeus, Greece
79Department of General and Digestive Surgery, Hospital Universitario Doctor Peset, Valencia, Spain
80Department of General Surgery, Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, India
81Department of Surgery, Radiology, Anaesthetics and Intensive Care, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
82Department of Surgery Second Surgical Clinic, Emergency Hospital of Craiova, Craiova, Romania
83Department of General Surgery and Emergency Medicine, University Hospital, Kraków, Poland
843rd Department of Surgery, AHEPA University Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
853rd Department of Surgery, Attikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Athens, Greece
86General Surgery, Khartoum Teaching Hospital, Khartoum, Sudan
87Department of Visceral, Digestive and Oncologic Surgery, Clinique Sainte Marie, Cambrai, France
88General Surgery, K R Hospital, Mysore, India
89General Surgery, Emergency Hospital of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
90General Surgery, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, London, UK
91General, Emergency Surgery, Infermi Hospital, Rimini, Italy
92Surgery, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Nigeria
93General Surgery, King Abdullah University Hospital, Irbid, Jordan
94Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery, Fundación Valle del Lili and Universidad Del Valle, Cali, Colombia
95Surgery Departement, Medical School of Fezm, Sidi Mohamed Benabdellah University, Fez, Morocco
96General Surgery, Elazig Training and Research Hospital, Elazig, Turkey
97General Surgery, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India
98Surgery, University Hospital, Greifswald, Germany
99Department of General Surgery, Sant'Antonio Abate Hospital, Gallarate, Italy
100Surgery and Anatomy, Clinics Hospital, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
101Abdominal surgery, UMC Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
102Department of Endoscopic, Metabolic and Soft Tissue Tumors Surgery, The University Hospital in Krakow, Kraków, Poland
103General Surgery, Hospital Civil de Guadalajara "Dr. Juan I. Menchaca", Guadalajara, Mexico
104Surgery, Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University Medical College & Hospital, Sangli, Maharashtra, India
105Laparoscopic and Metabolic Surgery, KIMS Hospital, Cochin, India
106Digestive Surgery, CHU Amiens-Picardie, Amiens, France
107General Surgery, Hospital Municipal Dr. Jose de Carvalho Florence, Sao Jose Dos Campos, Brazil
108General Surgery, Hospital General Regional # 1 I.M.S.S, Cuernavaca, Mexico
109Acute Care Surgery, North Estonia Medical Center, Tallinn, Estonia
110General Surgery, University Hospital St George, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
111General Surgery, Russells Hall Hospital, Birmingham, UK
112General Surgery, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
113Surgery, Hospital & Oncological Centre Novy Jicin, Novy Jicin, Czech Republic
114General Surgery, Clinical Hospital at Chelyabinsk Station OJSC "Russian Railways", Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation
1153rd Department of Surgery, IASO General Hospital, Athens, Greece
116General Surgery and Polytrauma, University Hospital, Medical College, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
117Cirurgia do Trauma, Hospital Escola Padre Albino, Catanduva, Brazil
118Surgery Department #2, Tbilisi State Medical University, Tbilisi, Georgia
119General Surgery, Trauma University Hospital, Tirana, Albania
1201st Department of Surgery—Department of Abdominal Thoracic Surgery and Traumatology, General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
121First Surgical Clinic, St. Spiridon University Hospital, Iasi, Romania
122Emergency Surgery, S. Anna Teaching Hospital, Ferrara, Italy
123Digestive and Endocrinal Surgery, University Hospital, Angers, France
124Department of Surgery, Medical School University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
125Surgery, ASTS Spedali Civili Brescia, Montichiari, Italy
126Department of General, Oncological, Metabolic and Thoracic Surgery, Military Institute of Medicine in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
127Department of General Surgery, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey
128Trauma and Emergency Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan
129Department of Surgery, Tianjin Nankai Hospital, Tianjin, China

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