abstract background: acute appendicitis is the most common cause of acute surgical abdomen. inspite of the introduction of ultrasonography, computed tomography scanning and laparoscopy in the years 1987-1997 the difficulty in accurate diagnosis of acute appendicitis has remained the same. our way of reaching a decision for operating in a patient suspected of having acute appendicitis (which wil...

background: the level of platelet volume (mpv) has been reported to be a laboratory marker in inflammatory cases. objectives: the aim of this study was to seek whether mpv has a role in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis. it was also aimed to show the relationship of mpv with leukocyte count and c-reactive protein (crp) level. materials and methods: this study was conducted via retrospective a...

o bjectives: to evaluate the accuracy of sonography in diagnosing acute appendicitis in patients with alvarado score 4–7. m e thods: this is a retrospective cross-sectional study being performed in namazee hospital affiliated with shiraz university of medical sciences during a one year period from 9/2007 to 9/2008. we evaluated all patients with alvarado score 4-7 and divided them in two groups...

a mobile caecum and ascending colon is an uncommon congenital disorder, and it is even rarer as the cause of an acute abdomen during childhood. this report presents the case of a 6-year-old boy with acute gangrenous appendicitis with a mobile caecum and ascending colon. data from the surgical course, as well as laboratory and imaging studies, were acquired and carefully examined. emergency ultr...

aim : the aim of this study is to evaluate the accuracy of preoperative abdominal ultrasonography in suspected appendicitis, and equivocal exam. background : acute appendicitis is a common problem and occasional challenging diagnosis in emergency department of every general hospital. patients and methods : within a period of one year from march 2007 through march 2008, all patient with suspecte...

objective: to determine the diagnostic value of blood cells surface markers in patients with acute appendicitis. methods: in this cross-sectional study, 71 patients who underwent appendectomy following a diagnosis of appendicitis were recruited during a one-year period. the patients were divided into two groups: patients with histopathologically confirmed acute appendicitis and subjects with no...

various scoring systems have been devised to aid diagnosis of acute appendicitis. the main objective of this study was finding the accuracy of modified alvarado score in prediction of acute appendicitis. the registries of cases with appendectomy, who had been admitted to a referral medical center in the capital of iran from february 2000 to march 2004, were studied. sensitivity and specificity ...

Introduction: This study aims to provide a comparative evaluation of the clinical and paraclinical diagnosis in patients with acute appendicitis. Methods: After investigation, the cases of 200 patients with symptoms of acute appendicitis who had referred to Shahid Beheshti Hospital of Yasuj-Iran in 2018 year and underwent surgery were examined. Variables of age and sex, pathology results, ultr...