background: acute appendicitis is one of the common and urgent illnesses among children.  children usually are unable to help the physicians completely due to weakness in describing the medical history. moreover, acute appendicitis overlaps with conditions of other diseases in terms of symptoms and signs in the first hours of presentation. these conditions lead to unwanted biases as well as err...

OBJECTIVES This study explored the risk factors and outcomes associated with perforation in children who underwent emergency appendicectomies. METHODS A retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted on children <13 years old who underwent appendicectomies in a Malaysian hospital in 2007. RESULTS One hundred thirty-four children underwent appendicectomies of which 118 were confirmed hist...

INTRODUCTION Gastrointestinal perforation due to a foreign body is not unknown. The foreign body often mimics another cause of acute abdomen and requires emergency surgical intervention. The majority of patients do not recall ingesting the foreign body. Perforations have been reported to occur in a pathologically abnormal colon. CASE PRESENTATION We report an interesting case of a 47-year-old...

Acute appendicitis is a common surgical presentation for which surgical intervention, an appendicectomy, has remained a largely unchallenged primary treatment modality. Traditionally, it has been felt that the pathophysiological progressive nature of appendicitis ultimately leads to perforation. A number of recent studies, however, suggest that the process of appendiceal inflammation may follo...

PURPOSE Diverticulitis of vermiform appendix is known as a rare cause of acute appendicitis, most of which are diagnosed after surgery. We compared appendiceal diverticulitis with acute appendicitis to study the clinical characteristics of appendiceal diverticulitis. METHODS Among 1,029 patients who received appendectomy from January 2009 to May 2011, 38 patients with appendiceal diverticulit...

UNLABELLED Three imaging modalities are available for the diagnosis of acute appendicitis: ultrasound (US), computed tomography (CT), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Transabdominal ultrasound should be the first-line imaging test. Abdominal CT is superior to US and is required immediately in patients with atypical clinical presentation of appendicitis and suspected perforation. However, l...

background and objective: in the present study, the diagnostic agreement between surgical and pathological findings of appendicitis in children was tested. the aim was to assess the association between patient body mass index (bmi) and this diagnostic agreement. methods: this cross-sectional study was carried out on 121 consecutive children aged less than 15 years suspected to acute appendiciti...

Background: Acute appendicitis is one of the common and urgent illnesses among children.  Children usually are unable to help the physicians completely due to weakness in describing the medical history. Moreover, acute appendicitis overlaps with conditions of other diseases in terms of Symptoms and signs in the first hours of presentation. These conditions lead to unwanted biases as well as err...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the levels of oxidative stress including total oxidant status, total antioxidant status, and paraoxonase activity in patients with a diagnosis of acute appendicitis. METHODS Seventy-three patients who underwent surgery with a preoperative diagnosis of acute appendicitis (Group I) were included into the study. The control group (Group II) con...