Endoscopic Diagnosis of Appendicitis

Evaluation of Children's Appendicitis Score Compared With Pediatric Appendicitis Score in Diagnosis of Pediatric Appendicitis

Introduction: Identification and promotion of diagnostic methods has been a continuous effort to reduce disease and its complications and reduce costs associated with treatment. Despite all these efforts and improving our knowledge of diseases and diagnostic tools, pediatric appendicitis remains part of the diagnostic challenge in the surgical field. The aim of this is to compare the two diagno...

The diagnosis of appendicitis.

Presented is a retrospective study of 359 patients admitted through the emergency room with nontraumatic abdominal pain who were evaluated for appendicitis. A review of presenting signs and symptoms and initial laboratory data is discussed and diagnostic criteria are established.

Neonatal Appendicitis: Difficult Diagnosis with Enterocolitis

The clinical presentation of appendicitis in the newborn is nonspecific. The diagnosis was always made after surgical exploration for acute abdominal findings mimicking necrotizing enterocolitis. We report the case of acute appendicitis in a newborn diagnosed intraoperatively after neonatal occlusion symptoms.

The Diagnosis of Appendicitis.

The Diagnosis of Acute Appendicitis

are for India, no man can tell, but despite the contention that vegetarian races are less liable to the disease than those races which eat large quantities of meat, there is no surgeon in India, who would fail to bear witness to the multitude of tragedies for which this disease is responsible. We are often told that appendicitis is a disease of modern times?more accurately a disease relatively ...