Acute appendicitis in nine British towns.

[Acute appendicitis in pregnancy].

A retrospective analysis is reported of 110 pregnant women with acute appendicitis on the basis of inquiry with participation of 23 surgical centres in the period 1979-1989. Attention is called mainly to diagnostic difficulties and peculiarities of the clinical course of this acute abdomen syndrome in pregnancy. The authors found that acute appendicitis was most frequent in primiparae in the 1s...

Clinical presentation of acute appendicitis in Babol, northern Iran

Acute appendicitis in pregnancy.

In I892, Lawson Tait described a case in which four years previously he had successful diagnosed and removed the first acutely inflamed appendix (Shepherd, I956). In the same year Wiggins reported a case of perforated appendix with a three-month foetus in utero in which he advised removal of the appendix, only to have his counsel rejected by the patient's relatives. She died of peritonitis and ...

Acute Appendicitis in Pregnancy

In I892, Lawson Tait described a case in which four years previously he had successful diagnosed and removed the first acutely inflamed appendix (Shepherd, I956). In the same year Wiggins reported a case of perforated appendix with a three-month foetus in utero in which he advised removal of the appendix, only to have his counsel rejected by the patient's relatives. She died of peritonitis and ...

Acute Appendicitis