3 Scoring Systems ....................................................... 17 3.1 Alvarado Score or MANTRELS Score .................... 17 3.2 Other Scoring Systems .............................................. 17 3.3 Pediatric Appendicitis Score (Samuel Score) .......... 18 3.4 Scoring Systems and the Use of Radiological Investigations .............................................................

OBJECTIVES To determine the serum and tissue levels of markers of impaired oxidative metabolism and correlate these levels with the histopathology and Alvarado score of acute appendicitis patients. METHOD Sixty-five acute appendicitis patients (mean age, 31.4±12.06 years; male/female, 30/35) and 30 healthy control subjects were studied. The Alvarado score was recorded. Serum samples were obta...

Acute appendicitis is a common surgical condition that requires prompt diagnosis. Besides modern imaging techniques, scoring systems, based on clinical signs and symptoms and routine laboratory assessments, have been used as a diagnostic aid. However, differences in sensitivities and specificities were observed if the scores were applied to various populations and clinical settings. The purpose...

INTRODUCTION This is a retrospective study to assess the accuracy of the Alvarado score in predicting appendicitis for patients with right iliac fossa pain. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a retrospective study of consecutive patients with suspected appendicitis. The Alvarado score was computed from the admission notes and correlated with the final outcome of the patient. Patients discharged wi...

Several clinical scoring systems have been developed to improve diagnostic accuracy in cases of suspected acute appendicitis. In 1986, Alvarado [1] described a scoring system, the Alvarado or MANTRELS score, to aid the diagnosis of acute appendicits. Samuel [2] was the first to describe a Pediatric Appendicitis Score (PAS) specifically for children incorporating eight statistically significant ...

BACKGROUND Appendicitis being the commonest surgical emergency is primarily diagnosed clinically but posses diagnostic difficulty usually, especially to junior surgeons, demanding the need for tool/scoring system that can be easily applicable, accurate & reproducible in the diagnosis of appendicitis, with low negative Appendicectomy rate. This study is designed to assess one such scoring system...

Objective: Appendicitis is part of the differential of an acute abdomen and can be difficult diagnosis to make. A number of clinical scores have been developed attempting to decrease the falsepositive rates of appendectomies. In this study we evaluated validity of Alvarado score in patients with suspected appendicitis and compared its performance between men and women. Methodology: From May 200...

BACKGROUND Although special features of acute appendicitis in the elderly have been described in some studies, no studies evaluating the applicability of appendicitis scores exist in the literature. The aim of this study was to compare Alvarado and Lintula scores in patients older than 65 years of age. METHODS Patients older than 65 years with appendicitis confirmed by pathology report were m...