A clinicopathological study of appendicectomy cases in a tertiary care hospital in South India
Journal Title: IJAR-Indian Journal of Applied Research - Year 2015, Vol 5, Issue 9
Abstract
Acute appendicitis is one of the commonest causes of acute abdomen encountered in surgical practice requiring emergency surgery. The gold standard treatment for appendicitis is open appendicectomy. If untreated, it may lead to many clinical complications which may be even fatal. The main aim of this study was to evaluate the clinicopathological spectrum and clinical profile of appendicectomy cases in a tertiary care hospital in South India. A total of 110 cases were included in the study. Most patients presented in second-third decade of life. A slight female predominance was observed in the study and the most common presenting symptom was p-ain ab domen (99.1%), which was followed by fever (76.4%) and vomiting (56.4%) (p <0.001 ,significant). The frequency of histopathological variety of appendicitis showed higher incidence of acute appendicitis (42.7%) followed by resolving appendicitis (27.27%) and lymphoid hyperplasia (26.36%).
Authors and Affiliations
Dr. Priyatham Kamath, Dr. Rakesh Rai, Dr. Lovely George, Dr. Ramprakash Kalgujjikar
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