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Appendicitis is
inflammation of the appendix.
Symptoms commonly include right lower abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and
decreased appetite. However,...
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performed as an
urgent or
emergency procedure to
treat complicated acute appendicitis.
Appendectomy may be
performed laparoscopically (as
minimally invasive...
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appendix may not be
present at all (laparotomies for
suspected appendicitis have
given a
frequency of 1 in 100,000).
Sometimes there is a semi-circular...
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tenderness at McBurney's point,
known as McBurney's sign, is a sign of
acute appendicitis. The
clinical sign of
referred pain in the
epigastrium when pressure...
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diagnosis of
appendicitis.
Alvarado scoring has
largely been su****ded as a
clinical prediction tool by the
Appendicitis Inflammatory Response...
- The
Appendicitis Inflammatory Response (AIR)
score is a
diagnostic scoring system used to ****ist with the
identification of
appendicitis in
children and...
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Danish surgeon Niels Thorkild Rovsing (1862–1927), is a sign of
appendicitis. If
palpation of the left
lower quadrant of a person's
abdomen increases...
- sign is
indicative of peritonitis,
which can
occur in
diseases like
appendicitis, and may
occur in
ulcerative colitis with
rebound tenderness in the right...
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abdomen pain with
reported incidence being less than 4 per 1000
cases of
appendicitis.
Omental infarction usually presents as right-sided
abdominal pain although...
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About 15% of
people have a more
serious underlying condition such as
appendicitis,
leaking or
ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm, diverticulitis, or ectopic...
