Background: Acute appendicitis is the most common surgical emergency of the childhood. Its diagnosis is really challenging. A constellation of through history taking, physical examination, radiographic investigations, and laboratory analysis should be used to balance the risk of delayed operative intervention against the removal of a normal appendix. Here a case with misdiagnosis of acute app...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Appendicectomy for acute appendicitis is one of the most commonly performed surgical procedures. Acute appendicitis has remained a clinical entity and an ongoing diagnostic challenge. A retrospective study was performed to determine histological diagnosis, demographic data, the rate of perforated appendicitis and negative appendicectomies. METHODS Histopathological re...

BACKGROUND Abdominal ultrasonography (US) is the most commonly used diagnostic tool for diagnosing acute appendicitis, which is one of the most common causes of acute surgical abdomen. In this study, we examined the reliability of US for diagnosing acute appendicitis. METHODS In this prospective study, we performed abdominal US on 235 patients admitted to our surgical emergency department dur...

BACKGROUND Acute appendicitis is a surgical emergency in which the appendix is surgically removed to prevent peritonitis due to perforation of the appendix. Depending on age and gender, up to 17% of removed appendices do not show the histopathological changes pathognomonic for acute appendicitis and are called 'pseudo-appendicitis'. Intestinal spirochaetes have been reported in up to 12.3% of t...

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 Accurately diagnosing appendicitis can be difficult. This retrospective study aimed to evaluate the ability of the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) to predict acute appendicitis pre-operatively and to differentiate between simple and complicated appendicitis. METHODS A database of 1067 patients who underwent surgery was evaluated. Based on postoperative histopathological examin...

.. Objective: The study was conducted to identify clinical features significantly associated with histopathologically proven appendicitis in children. Design: Cross-Sectional Observational. Place and Duration of study: This study was conducted in Department of Paediatric Surgery, Shaikh Zayed Hospital, Lahore between August 2010 to August 2012. Patients and methods: Children aged 2 to 14 years ...

BACKGROUND The aim of the present study was to examine the efficacy of simple laboratory parameters including neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet count (PLT), mean platelet volume (MPV), and serum bilirubin level in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis and recognition of perforated appendicitis. METHODS Records of 3392 patients who underwent appendectomy in a 10-year period were rev...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to seek whether red cell distribution width (RDW) has a role in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis. It was also aimed to show the relationship of RDW with leukocyte count and C-reactive protein (CRP) level. METHODS This study was conducted via retrospective assessment of the hospital records of the adult patients who were operated for acute appendicitis betw...