Appendicitis is a common cause of abdominal pain in children. The diagnosis and treatment
of the disease have undergone major changes in the past two decades, primarily as a result …

Backround The electronic diagnostic tools of acute appendicitis present serious
disadvantages, thus some clinical scores have been formed in order to reach the diagnosis …

Diagnosis of appendicitis is challenging, and some controversies on its management are
still present among different settings and practice patterns worldwide. In April 2020, the …

Purpose Acute appendicitis (AA) is one of the most common causes of an acute abdomen.
The accuracies of the Alvarado and the acute inflammatory response (AIR) scores in the …

Acute appendicitis represents the most common abdominal surgical urgency/emergency in
children. Imaging remains a central tool in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis and has been …

Background In the last decades, several clinical scores have been developed and currently
used to improve the diagnosis and risk management of patients with suspected acute …

Purpose To compare the accuracy of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging with that of
computed tomography (CT) for the diagnosis of acute appendicitis in emergency department …

Introducción Con el fin de evitar retardo en el diagnóstico de apendicitis aguda y disminuir
el margen de error, se ha recurrido a la aplicación de escalas. El objetivo de este estudio …

Introduction In order to avoid delay in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis and reduce the
margin of error, the use of scales has been used. The aim of this study was to compare the …

Background The aim of this study is to test the diagnostic value of baseline and early change
of C-reactive protein (CRP) concentrations, evaluated separately or in combination with the …