If you have an inflamed/infected appendix then your Doctor may admit you to hospital for an "appendectomy". An appendectomy is an operation to remove the appendix.
However, in my youth, before medical services were more or less available globally, if you got a job working in remote areas, your employer often asked you to have an appendectomy so that you could not develop appendicitis (an inflamed/infected appendix) in the field and require emergency repatriation for treatment.
If you need an appendectomy but keep postponing having your appendix removed, your appendix could rupture, and if you don't find a surgeon and a doctor in a hurry, a ruptured appendix, which causes peritonitis, could be fatal.
Appendix. An appendectomy is the operation to remove the appendix.
As long as the scar is healed then there is no reason why you can't swim after an appendectomy
Yes, appendectomy is excision (surgical removal) of the appendix.
The same as before an appendectomy. aA balanced one.
open appendectomy
Append- is the root in the term appendectomy. The suffix -ectomy indicates surgical removal.
"Status post appendectomy remote" means the patient had her appendix surgically removed, but not recently.
Appendectomy is very simple surgery. It is like eating the cake, for the good surgeon. Not doing the same may lead to fatal out come.
He was rushed into the operating theatre for an emergency appendectomy as his appendix had just exploded in his abdominal cavity.
"Status post appendectomy remote" means the patient had her appendix surgically removed, but not recently.
Appendectomy