"Status post appendectomy remote" means the patient had her appendix surgically removed, but not recently.
"Status post appendectomy remote" means the patient had her appendix surgically removed, but not recently.
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.
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
The same as before an appendectomy. aA balanced one.
Yes, appendectomy is excision (surgical removal) of the appendix.
open appendectomy
Append- is the root in the term appendectomy. The suffix -ectomy indicates surgical removal.
He was rushed into the operating theatre for an emergency appendectomy as his appendix had just exploded in his abdominal cavity.
Appendectomy
no