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Query: UMLS:C0085693 (acute appendicitis)
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A prospective study of 444 consecutive patients diagnosed as having acute appendicitis was carried out in a district general hospital. The appendix was acutely inflamed, gangrenous, or perforated in 346 patients. Diagnostic error, 22% overall, was twice as common in females as in males. Organisms were isolated from the outer appendix wall in 117 patients, isolation increasing with the severity of inflammation. 12% of children under 11 had mesentric adenitis, 10% of all females had gynaecological lesions, and 14% of patients over 50 had acute diverticulitis. In only 6% of patients was no abnormality found at operation, and in every case the disorder was dealt with through the gridiron incision.
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PMID:Appendicitis and mimicking conditions. A prospective study. 5 Dec 35

A case of acute appendicitis in which an appendicolith was present is described. The diagnosis was made by plain abdominal radiography and ultrasound, and was confirmed at surgery. The plain abdominal film showed a lamellated, round calcification, projecting over the right iliac wing. Ultrasound revealed a tubular, hypoechogenic structure, containing an oval hyperechogenic area with acoustic shadow. The recent literature was reviewed, and the "graded compression" technique is described. A summary is given of the ultrasound findings of acute appendicitis, and of its most important differential diagnoses in childhood: mesenterial adenitis, and--less frequently--terminal ileitis.
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PMID:[Acute appendicitis, echographic findings]. 265 82