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Annals of Saudi Medicine, 2023 BACKGROUND: Abdominal pain is a common and non-specific symptom in children. It is important to be able to distinguish the source of abdominal pain before surgery.
Fatma Özcan Siki +5 more
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Mean Platelet Volume is Reduced in Acute Appendicitis
Turkish Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2015 SUMMARY: Objectives: Acute appendicitis (AA) is the most common indication for emergency abdominal surgery, although it remains difficult to diagnose.
Egemen KUCUK, Irfan KUCUK
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Acute appendicitis: Acute appendicitis or acute appendicectomy? [PDF]
BMJ, 2006 EDITOR—Over 40 years ago, I studied the clinical pathology of the appendix and the epidemiology of appendicectomy. I would like to comment on four complementary issues.1 Firstly, around 1960 the 4/1000 death rate ranged from 1/2600 for uncomplicated appendicitis in young adults, to 1/9 for patients older than 50 with a perforated appendix.
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Acute Appendicitis in Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children With COVID-19.
The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 2020 S Africa has the highest number of COVID-19 cases in Africa to date with Cape Town as the initial epicenter. Up to 20 August 2020, 78 children with positive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)CoV-2 were admitted to ...
J. Lishman +7 more
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Asymmetric Information With Multiple Risks: The Case of the Chilean Private Health Insurance Market
Health Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We extend the Rothshild and Stiglitz (1976) model to two sources of risk –inpatient and outpatient risk– to better proxy real‐world health insurance markets. We uncover an interesting theoretical possibility: Take individuals A and B, who are low risks in, say, the inpatient dimension but A is riskier in the outpatient dimension.
Dolores de la Mata +3 more
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Obstructive Uropathy Secondary to Missed Acute Appendicitis
Case Reports in Surgery, 2016 Hydronephrosis is a rare complication of acute appendicitis. We present a case of missed appendicitis in a 52-year-old female which presented as a right-sided hydronephrosis.
Mahir Gachabayov
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Learning curve and period of experience required for the competent diagnosis of acute appendicitis using abdominal computed tomography: a prospective observational study [PDF]
Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine, 2017 Objective To assess the learning curve of novice residents in diagnosing acute appendicitis using abdominal computed tomography (CT) scans. Methods This prospective observational study was conducted within a 4-month period from March 1 to June 30, 2015 ...
Ju-Hyun Song +6 more
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Diagnostic Performance of Ultrasound in Adult Appendicitis. A Retrospective Review of 331 Cases
Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences, EarlyView.The sensitivity of ultrasound in the detection of appendicitis had a prevalence of 16% in our predominantly young female cohort, with alternative gynaecological and abdominal diagnoses identified approximately 2:1. The sensitivity for ultrasound to detect appendicitis was 60%, with specificity of 98% and negative predictive value (NPV) of 93%.
Alistair Lock, Martin Necas
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Journal of Medical Sciences, 2014 Acute appendicitis and acute cholecystitis are commonly seen in acute abdominal disease. However, it is rarely described that synchronous acute cholecystitis and acute appendicitis presented.
Ting-Ying Lee +7 more
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Primary appendicitis epiploicae mimicking acute appendicitis [PDF]
Postgraduate Medical Journal, 1988 SummaryWe report two cases of primary appendicitis epiploicae, caused by torsion, whose presentation mimicked acute appendicitis.
A J, McMahon, D T, Hansell
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