Roberto Cirocchi

No ORCID on file · 3 papers in corpus
observational 2022
Emergency surgery admissions and the COVID-19 pandemic: did the first wave really change our practice? Results of an ACOI/WSES international retrospective cohort audit on 6263 patients
World journal of emergency surgery : WJES ·doi:10.1186/s13017-022-00407-1

INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic is having a deep impact on emergency surgical services, with a significant reduction of patients admitted into emergency surgical units world widely. Reliable figures of this reduction have not been produ…

meta-analysis 2018
Laparoscopic-endoscopic rendezvous versus preoperative endoscopic sphincterotomy in people undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy for stones in the gallbladder and bile duct
The Cochrane database of systematic reviews ·doi:10.1002/14651858.cd010507.pub2

BACKGROUND: The management of gallbladder stones (lithiasis) concomitant with bile duct stones is controversial. The more frequent approach is a two-stage procedure, with endoscopic sphincterotomy and stone removal from the bile duct follow…

review 2016
WSES Jerusalem guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of acute appendicitis
World journal of emergency surgery : WJES ·doi:10.1186/s13017-016-0090-5

Acute appendicitis (AA) is among the most common cause of acute abdominal pain. Diagnosis of AA is challenging; a variable combination of clinical signs and symptoms has been used together with laboratory findings in several scoring systems…