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Appendectomy is one of the most common surgeries conducted in any hospital. Despite modern advances, the diagnosis of appendicitis remains essentially clinical, requiring a mixture of observation clinical acumen and surgical science and as such it remains an enigmatic challenge and a reminder of the art of surgical diagnosis. A delay in performing an appendectomy runs the risk of appendicular perforation...
Acute appendicitis is a clinical diagnosis, so it’s impossible to have a definitive diagnosis by gold standard (histopathology) pre operatively. The treatment being surgical, negative appendicectomy rates are high. Present study was conducted to evaluate Alvarado scoring system for diagnosis of acute appendicitis and its co relation by histopathology. Retrospective study of consecutive patients admitted...
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