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...

 ABSTRACT Background: Acute appendicitis is the most common cause of acute surgical abdomen. Inspite of the introduction of ultrasonography, computed tomography scanning and laparoscopy in the years 1987-1997 the difficulty in accurate diagnosis of acute appendicitis has remained the same. Our way of reaching a decision for operating in a patient suspected of having acute appendicitis (which wi...

Background : Acute appendicitis is one of the commonest surgical emergencies in children and malnutrition prevalent country. This study was designed to compare if complicated occurs more malnourished children.
 Materials methods: cross-sectional conducted Department Paediatric Surgery, Chittagong Medical College Hospital from March 2017 December 2019 with 155 children. Anthropometric measu...

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: 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 Surgical management of acute appendicitis with appendiceal abscess or phlegmon remains controversial. We studied the results of initial conservative treatment (antibiotics and percutaneous drainage if necessary, with or without interval appendectomy) compared with immediate surgery. METHODS We undertook an observational, retrospective cohort study of patients with a clinical and ra...

Total serum bilirubin and other biochemical parameters have been associated with acute appendicitis, mainly in complicated cases. The present study aimed to evaluate the role of diagnosis further investigate as a diagnostic marker irrespective severity pathology. All recorded cases appendicectomies 1‑year period single institution were reviewed. median values white cell count, C‑reactive protei...

  Background: Delay in diagnosis and treatment of perforated appendicitis may cause life-threatening complications. The aim of this study was to determine and compare pre-operative total and direct bilirubin levels in cases of simple and perforated acute appendicitis in order to improve the clinical decision making.   Methods: This prospective observational study included eighty patients who ...