Accurate and timely diagnosis of pre-operative acute appendicitis significantly diminishes morbidity and mortality of the disease [1-3] . Delay in the diagnosis increases the danger of complicated appendicitis, postoperative complications and the medical cost [4] . On the other hand, misdiagnosis of assumed appendicitis lead to unneeded surgeries, major affection of patient's daily life and sig...

Psoas abscesses could originate from an adjacent source of infection in the abdominopelvic cavity known as a secondary complication of acute appendicitis. However, it is considered as a very rare event when occurring late after the presentation of appendicitis. Whether it is the source or complication of acute appendicitis following appendectomy remains unclear. A 25-year-old man was admitted t...

Aim: To evaluate the efficacy of antibiotic treatment as primary option for non-complicated acute appendicitis in pandemic situation. Study Design: Prospective interventional study. Setting & Duration Study: CMH Lahore, a 700 bedded tertiary care hospital, 4 months from 15th April 2020 to august 2020. Methodology: A total 110 cases meeting inclusion criteria, aged 13-65 years both genders w...

Introduction. Single-incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) is a new technique developed for performing operations without a visible scar. Preliminary studies have reported the use of the technique mainly in cholecystectomy and appendectomy. We evaluated the feasibility of the technique in various appendicitis conditions including children, fertile women and obese patients. Materials and Methods....

INTRODUCTION An increasing proportion of childhood -appendicitis is being treated with laparoscopic appendectomy (LA). We wanted to elucidate the outcome of childhood appendicitis treated primarily by residents in a university hospital. MATERIAL AND METHODS All children (age<16 years) with appendectomy treated surgically in our department between January 2006 and January 2011 were identified ...

Background: Acute appendicitis is one of the most common abdominal urgent/emergent conditions worldwide and can occur at every age. It can be simple, in many cases treated conservatively, or complicated which require a surgical intervention. Sometimes is present peritonitis or abscesses which can deal to the creation of laparostomy (in order to oversee bowel inflammation). Diagnosis can be diff...

BACKGROUND AND AIM In our study we aimed to compare laparoscopic intracorporeal knotting technique (base of the appendix was ligated with 20 cm of 2.0 silk) in patients with complicated acute appendicitis (CAA) and noncomplicated acute appendicitis. PATIENTS AND METHODS Ninety patients (female/male: 40/50, age ranging from 16 to 60 years, median age and interquartile range [IQR]: 25 [20; 32] ...

BACKGROUND Clinical diagnosis of acute appendicitis is based primarily on symptoms and physical findings. However, diagnosis of appendicitis is not always straightforward. The aim of this study was to demonstrate the diagnostic effectiveness of ultrasonography (US) in these cases in combination with white blood cell count (WBC) and C-reactive protein (CRP) level. METHODS Retrospective analysi...

BACKGROUND We present our experience in the first 20 cases of complicated acute appendicitis in children, junior athletes, managed laparoscopically. MATERIALS AND METHOD We selected our first 20 patients, aged between 3 and 17 (median age 10), with complicated acute appendicitis treated laparoscopically. We analysed the intra and postoperative complications, operative time, length of hospital...

A study has been made of the influence of age and sex on the incidence of cases of appendicitis and of fatal appendicitis in children and young adults. Appendicitis is uncommon in children under the age of 5, but the proportion of cases complicated by peritonitis is large, and the death rate in the population of this age is relatively high. Appendicitis is very common in adolescents, but here t...