Acute appendicitis is perhaps the most common surgically correctable cause ofacute abdominal pain and its diagnosis remains difficult in many instances. Some ofthe signs and symptoms can be subtle to both the clinician and the patient and may notbe present in all the instances. Arriving at the correct diagnosis and decreasing therate of negative appendicectomy is essential. However a delay in d...

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...

BACKGROUND The Alvarado score is the most widely used clinical prediction tool to facilitate decision-making in patients with acute appendicitis, but it has not been validated in the black South African population, which has much wider differential diagnosis than developed world populations. We investigated the applicability of this score to our local population and sought to introduce a checkl...

The aim of this study was to assess the application of the Alvarado score in diagnosis of acute appendicitis. This study was reported for the first time from Republic of Mauritius. A total of 106 patients with clinical impression of acute appendicitis were included in this study. All patients underwent thorough clinical evaluation, pre-operative total leucocyte count (TLC) and differential leuc...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to systematically review the accuracy of the Alvarado score and Pediatric Appendicitis Score and to identify optimal cutoffs for low- and high-risk populations. METHODS We performed a systematic review of the literature and identified 26 studies of the accuracy of the Alvarado score and Pediatric Appendicitis Score. Data were abstracted in parall...

Introduction: One of the most common surgical emergencies encountered in the day to day practice both in developed and developing countries in the world is acute appendicitis. The incidence may range from 13% to 77%. The diagnosis is purely based on clinical history, examination and ultrasonography. Many studies are available about the diagnostic methods used for acute appendicitis in western p...

Purpose Acute appendicitis (AA) is one of the most common causes of an acute abdomen. The accuracies of the Alvarado and the acute inflammatory response (AIR) scores in the diagnosis of appendicitis is very low in Asian populations, so a new scoring system, the Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Saleha Appendicitis (RIPASA) system, was designed recently. We applied and compared the Alvarado, AIR, and RI...