Abstract:Background: Acute appendicitis is amongst the most encountered emergencies seen in casualties requiring intervention. The incidence of negative laparotomy is 15% to 25% and is associated with notable morbidity. Scoring systems are useful and logical for distinguishing acute appendicitis from non-specific abdominal pain. Presently many scoring systems exist that aids in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis but still fail to decrease the rates of wrong diagnosis and the negative appendicectomy rate. This comparat… Show more
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