Appendicitis

external

• Causes

  • Escherichia coli
  • Male gender

• Effects

  • Acute abdominal pain
  • Right iliac fossa pain
  • Anorexia
  • Nausea and vomiting
  • Peritonism
  • Rovsing's sign
  • Bowel perforation
  • Liver abscess
  • Appendix mass
  • Appendix abscess

• Parents

  • Lower gastrointestinal pathology
  • Surgical pathology

• Description

  • " - Only in 50% of patients is the preoperative diagnosis correct. - At 20% of appendicectomies
  • a normal appendix is removed. - A women is more likely to have a 'normal' appendix removed. If a normal appendix is found at laprotomy
  • look for: - Meckel's diverticulum. - Acute salpingitis. - Crohn's disease. Rovsing's sign = pain in right iliac fossa on palpation of the left iliac fossa. "