o bjective: to determine the effects of intravenous acetaminophen (apotel®)  on pain severity and clinical findings of peritonitis in patients with acute appendicitis. m e thods: this randomized  cross-over clinical trial was carried out duringa 6-month  period from august 2012 to february 2013 and comprised 107 patients diagnosed with acute appendicitis. patients were randomly assigned to rece...

OBJECTIVE Adult appendicitis (AA) with equivocal computed tomography (CT) findings remains a diagnostic challenge for physicians. Herein we evaluated the diagnostic performance of several clinical scoring systems in adult patients with suspected appendicitis and equivocal CT findings. METHODS We retrospectively evaluated 189 adult patients with equivocal CT findings. Alvarado, Eskelinen, appe...

OBJECTIVE The optimal diagnostics and treatment of acute appendicitis continues to be a challenge. A false positive diagnosis of appendicitis may lead to an unnecessary operation, which has been appropriately termed negative appendectomy. The aim of our study was to identify the effectiveness of preoperative investigations in preventing negative appendectomy. METHODS A retrospective study was...

Appendicitis is inflammation of the appendix that occurs due to fecalitis, fibrosis, foreign bodies, or neoplasia. Based on WHO data in 2014, appendicitis ranked 8th as cause death and expected continue increase upcoming years. In Southeast Asian region, incidence acute found almost all countries. Indonesia with a prevalence 0.05% ranks first country highest appendicitis. has clinical manifesta...

: Multiple scoring systems have been addressed to identify those patients who need emergency appendicectomy as the risk of delay could be avoided. Of these, consideration both sore related Alvarado and Tzanakis is essential for study understand effective diagnose acute appendicitis. The aims compare evaluate score diagnosing This was conducted in department General Surgery associated with M.K.C...