We report two cases of primary appendicitis epiploicae, caused by torsion, whose presentation mimicked acute appendicitis.

A STUDY of the literature suggests that few authorities are in agreement about the entity "chronic appendicitis" and the way in which it manifests itself. A number of authors deny that it exists. Alvarez (1940), after a review of 385 patients who had been subjected to appendicectomy for non-acute symptoms, concluded that "chronic appendicitis is the rarest of intra-abdominal diseases." McClure ...

Background. The incidence of perforated appendicitis in elderly patients is high and carries increased morbidity and mortality rates. The aim of this study was to identify risk factors of perforation in elderly patients who presented with clinical of acute appendicitis. Methods. This was a retrospective study, reviewing medical records of patients over the age of 60 years who had a confirmed di...

Appendicitis and trauma may exist together, which causes an interesting debate whether trauma has led to appendicitis. We report a case of appendicitis after an abdominal trauma. Our patient developed acute appendicitis following a stab wound in the right iliac fossa. Surgical exploration confirmed the traumatic origin of appendicitis, appendectomy was performed and our patient made an excellen...

Acute appendicitis, the most frequent emergency in digestive surgery, is a well-known pathology children and young adults. Its diagnosis presents some difficulties elderly. Appendicitis taking place subhepatic space (i.e., appendicitis) largely not common, it occurs as result of intestinal malrotation and/or mal-descent cecum during embryonic development. In our case 10 year old male child has ...

While acute appendicitis and acute cholecystitis are both common, they are only rarely seen simultaneously. The clinical presentation and hospital course of a 45-year-old female with concurrent acute appendicitis and acute cholecystitis is presented. The laparoscopic approach is ideal for dealing with multiple, simultaenous abdominal pathologies.

Diagnosis of appendicitis, particularly in young women, may be challenging. In case of abdominal pain in the postoperative period of laparoscopic surgery, one should not only think of complications such as bleeding and injury of the bowel but also such as acute appendicitis. We report a case of a 26-year-old female patient with a post-laparoscopic acute appendicitis with appendicolithiasis 3 da...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the possible association between the scale of Alvarado (EA) and macroscopic appearance (MA) of the appendix in patients with acute appendicitis. METHODS after receiving the diagnosis of acute appendicitis, EA data were collected. During appendectomy, MA data were collected. Data from patients without appendicitis were excluded. The Spearman correlation test was used to c...

INTRODUCTION Laparoscopic appendectomy is accepted as the gold standard technique for the treatment of acute appendicitis. Recently single-incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) was tried in the pediatric population and was shown to be both feasible and safe. We describe our early experience in teaching the SILS procedure for appendicitis in a large community hospital center surgical residency pr...