Difficult appendicular stump: Outcomes of surgical management in patients with acute appendicitis in Colombia

Acute appendicitis is one of the main causes of abdominal pain and is the principal diagnosis in young patients who consult emergency departments for acute abdominal pain.1, 2, 3 The incidence of the disease varies between developed and developing countries, with a rate between 5.7 and 50 persons per 100,000 inhabitants per year, with a significant peak in people aged between 10 and 30 years and being less frequent at extremes of life.1,2 In the case of Colombia, according to a study carried out in four representative cities of the country between 2017 and 2021 by Bottia et al., there were approximately 350,000 cases of acute appendicitis, half of which were in women and had the peak of presentation between the second and third decades of life as in the rest of the world.