.. Objective: The study was conducted to identify clinical features significantly associated with histopathologically proven appendicitis in children. Design: Cross-Sectional Observational. Place and Duration of study: This study was conducted in Department of Paediatric Surgery, Shaikh Zayed Hospital, Lahore between August 2010 to August 2012. Patients and methods: Children aged 2 to 14 years ...

Khorasani B1, Gholizadeh Pasha A2 1. Assistant professor, Department of surgery, Faculty of medicine, Tehran University of rehabilitation 2. Assistant professor, Department of surgery, Faculty of medicine, Babol University of medical sciences Abstract Background: Acute appendicitis is a completely known disease but for many physicians chronic appendicitis is unknown and some of them do...

Introduction: Acute appendicitis is the most common cause of acute abdomen and is considered as a surgical emergency. Approximately, 10% of patients with acute appendicitis and delayed diagnosis can face many complications. This study was designed to examine the correlation between ultrasound and pathological findings in patients with appendicitis and aimed t...

Chronic complications of acute appendicitis managed in a conservative manner are not frequent. We present a case of acute lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage in a young patient with a previous acute appendicitis without surgical intervention. The colonoscopy detected an appendicular bleeding which was surgically treated. The anatomopathological diagnosis was granulomatous appendicitis. The clinic...

Situs inversus totalis is a rare inherent disease in which the thoracic and abdominal organs are transposed. Symptoms of appendicitis in situs inversus (SI) may appear in the left lower quadrant, and the diagnosis of appendicitis is very difficult. We report a case of left-sided appendicitis diagnosed preoperatively after dextrocardia that was detected by chest X-ray, although the chief complai...

Laporoscopic appendectomy (LA) has advantages over open appendectomy (OA) in terms of shorter length of hospital stay, less superficial surgical site infection, and better cosmetics in patients with non-complicated appendicitis (NCA) (1, 2). However controversy still exists, particularly in complicated appendicitis (CA) which is described as a perforated appendix with or without abscess formati...

INTRODUCTION Acute appendicitis is the most common abdominal emergency requiring emergency surgery. However, the diagnosis is often challenging and the decision to operate, observe or further work-up a patient is often unclear. The utility of clinical scoring systems (namely the Alvarado score), laboratory markers, and the development of novel markers in the diagnosis of appendicitis remains co...