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If appendix bursts, or appendicitis complicates. how long do you have to live? minutes? hours?
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Variable: May respond to antibiotics.May localize abscess. May cause bowel obstruction. May cause peritonitis, sepsis and even death unless drained and treated. General surgeon consu,t
Answered 2/17/2017
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