Acute appendicitis is the most common cause of acute abdomen requiring surgical intervention. Although typical, uncomplicated cases of acute appendicitis are easy to diagnose and treat, diagnosis of atypical appendicitis is a difficult task and remains a clinical challenge that may test the diagnostic skills of even the most experienced surgeons. In the present review, the diagnosis of the dise...

Acute appendicitis is the most common surgical emergency of the abdomen. Right lower quadrant abdominal pain is a common complaint, and many other infectious gastrointestinal pathologies may mimic acute appendicitis. The diagnosis of acute appendicitis is sometimes difficult, and misdiagnoses occur, even though the symptoms and signs of appendicitis are well known in the world. Accurate and qui...

 Abstract Background: Misdiagnosis of the acute appendicitis may increase the rate of negative appendectomies, which involve a huge waste of resources and are sometimes associated with severe complications. Furthermore, false negative result of ultrasonography (US) could lead to perforation of appendix. Since ultrasonography is still the most common imaging technique used in Iranian appendiciti...

BACKGROUND Appendicitis is important as it is a common surgical emergency. There is no medical treatment for it, timely surgery is mandatory to prevent morbidity and mortality. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to analyse the pathologic findings, the demographics, and, look for the existence of the so called aetiopathogenetic factors in the context of current prevailing beliefs regar...

BACKGROUND Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) techniques can reduce exposure to radiation. Several previous studies have shown that radiation dose reduction in LDCT does not decrease the diagnostic performance for appendicitis among attending radiologists. But, the LDCT diagnostic performance for acute appendicitis in radiology residents with variable training levels has not been well discusse...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether density of providers or health care facility factors have a significant effect on the rates of perforated appendicitis in the pediatric population. DESIGN A retrospective database analysis. Data were linked to the Area Resource File to determine if there was an association between perforated appendicitis and density of provider and facility factors. SETTING The ...

BACKGROUND This retrospective study aimed to evaluate the ability of the delta neutrophil index (DNI) to predict histologically normal appendicitis preoperatively and to differentiate between simple and complicated appendicitis. METHODS The data from 650 patients were divided into positive and negative appendectomy groups (histologically normal appendicitis). The patients in the acute appendi...

OBJECTIVE Acute appendicitis is the most common abdominal emergency in children and young adults. There are a lot of serotonin-containing cells in the appendix, which release serotonin into the bloodstream in response to inflammation. Consequently, serotonin is converted to 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) and secreted into the urine. On this basis, urinary 5-HIAA could be a marker for acute...

INTRODUCTION Acute appendicitis commonly presents as an acute abdomen. Cases of acute appendicitis caused by blunt abdominal trauma are rare. We present a systematic review of appendicitis following blunt abdominal trauma. The aim of this review was to collate and report the clinical presentations and experience of such cases. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A literature review was performed using PubMe...

BACKGROUND Acute appendicitis is one of the most common causes of acute abdomen in children. Late surgical intervention is often associated with increase morbidity and sometimes fatal outcome. We sought to determine the pattern of presentation of acute appendicitis, and the effect of late presentation on surgical outcome in children. METHODS This is a retrospective descriptive study done at t...