BACKGROUND To investigate the status of antibiotics use in acute appendicitis patients who undergo appendectomy in a Chinese tertiary care hospital. METHODS A retrospective analysis of 93 patients who underwent appendectomy from June 1, 2011 to May 30, 2012 and had recorded use of intravenous antibiotics. We defined simple appendicitis and suppurative appendicitis as mild appendicitis. Gangre...

RATIONALE Neonatal appendicitis is extremely rare, and preoperative diagnosis is challenging. This study aimed to investigate the utility of ultrasound for the diagnosis of neonatal appendicitis. PATIENT CONCERNS Four cases of neonatal appendicitis were included in this case series. One was a female infant and the other 3 were male infants; they were aged from 10 to 17 days. DIAGNOSES Neona...

Schistosomal appendicitis is very rare in developed countries like the USA, Europe, and Japan. The author reviewed 311 pathologic archival specimens of vermiform appendix over the past 10 years. One case of schistosomal appendicitis was recognized. Therefore, the incidence of this disease was 0.32% in all appendices surgically resected in our hospital. The patient was a 41-year-old woman presen...

The misdiagnosis of acute appendicitis is not uncommon. Rarely does infection of the triradiate cartilage imitate this entity. This case highlights an uncommon presentation of acetabular osteomyelitis as acute appendicitis and the severity of its sequelae. Like septic arthritis of the hip, acute appendicitis overtreatment is acceptable in part because of the complications resulting from delayed...

Introduction: This study aims to provide a comparative evaluation of the clinical and paraclinical diagnosis in patients with acute appendicitis. Methods: After investigation, the cases of 200 patients with symptoms of acute appendicitis who had referred to Shahid Beheshti Hospital of Yasuj-Iran in 2018 year and underwent surgery were examined. Variables of age and sex, pathology results, ultr...

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 app...

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 incases of simple and perforated acute appendicitis in order to improve the clinical decision making. METHODS This prospective observational study included eighty patients who underwen...

INTRODUCTION Non-specific acute abdominal pain is the most common process requiring differential diagnosis with appendicitis in clinical practice. The aim of this study was to assess the Paediatric Appendicitis Score in differentiating between these two entities. MATERIAL AND METHODS All patients admitted due to suspicion of appendicitis were prospectively evaluated in our hospital over a two...

Abdominal computed tomography (CT) provides great benefits for the differential diagnosis in patients complaining of acute abdominal pain. However, the use of diagnostic X-rays is associated with the cumulative risk of cancer development. In order to determine the relative usefulness of noncontrast and enhanced CT with intravenous contrast material for diagnosing acute appendicitis, the retrosp...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility of using acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) imaging to diagnose acute appendicitis. METHODS Abdominal ultrasonography (US) and ARFI imaging were performed in 53 patients that presented with right lower quadrant pain, and the results were compared with those obtained in 52 healthy subjects. Qualitative evaluation of the pati...