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Objective: Acute appendicitis (AA) is a common cause of acute abdominal pain in pediatric patients. The diagnosis of AA in children can sometimes be difficult to make accurately. For this reason, ultrasonography (US) and computed tomography (CT) are also
Tuğçe NALBANT +4 more
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Introduction: One of the sign of inflammation are the red distribution width (RDW) and neutrophils lymphocyte ratio (NLR). The width of the distribution of red blood cells (RDW) is a measure of the size of circulating erythrocytes. We aim to assess the association of RDW with pediatric appendicitis score (PAS) to determine the severity degree of acute ...
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Background. Decision-making for management may sometimes be difficult in acute appendicitis (AA). Various diagnostic scoring systems exist, but their sensitivity and specificity rates are far from ideal. In this study, the determination of the predictors
Zafer Dokumcu +8 more
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AbstractObjective: Acute appendicitis is one of the most common causes of emergency abdominal surgery in children, and early accurate diagnosis is essential. This study aimed to compare the diagnostic and severity-assessment performance of the Pediatric Appendicitis Score (PAS) with novel hematologic inflammatory markers in pediatric patients with ...
Eren Yaşa +3 more
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Hemos leído con particular interés el estudio de Barón-Méndez LE, et al. 1 titulado: “Utilidad del Pediatric Appendicitis Score (PAS) para el diagnóstico de apendicitis aguda en pacientes pediátricos”, que tuvo por objetivo determinar el rendimiento del
Jorge Andrés Castrillón-Lozano +2 more
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Pediatric appendicitis score: A retrospective analysis
Aims: Evaluation of the pediatric appendicitis score (PAS), in all patients who had an appendicectomy over a one-year period. Methods: Retrospective study of 56 patients aged 4-15 years, who underwent an emergency appendicectomy.
Goulder F, Simpson T
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Ashraf Othman Sayed,1 Nancy Selim Zeidan,2 Dalia Monir Fahmy,3 Hossam A Ibrahim4 1Department of Pediatrics, Children and Women’s University Hospital, Minia University, El-Minya, Egypt; 2Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo ...
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Abstract Purpose: Various scoring systems have been developed to facilitate early detection of perforated appendicitis (PA), a serious complication of acute appendicitis (AA), which remains one of the most common surgical emergencies in children.
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Background The objective of this study was to assess the likelihood of acute appendicitis (AA) in children presenting with abdominal symptoms at the emergency department (ED), based on their prior primary care (PC) consultation history.
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