This case illustrates retrocecal appendicitis should be considered ... intervention if a patient exhibits such atypical clinical manifestations accompanied with an elongated tubule structure ...

It can be argued that in US Emergency Departments, the diagnosis of acute appendicitis has shifted from clinical impression to radiographic confirmation, even for patients for whom the diagnosis ...

"Children with abdominal pain are a diagnostic conundrum. On the one hand those who have appendicitis need to be diagnosed in a timely manner, but on the other hand the most common diagnostic tool we ...

Laboratory tests revealed leukocytopenia (3.75/nL). This combination of leukocytopenia and cold symptoms, atypical for appendicitis, prompted consideration of COVID-19, which sometimes features ...

Researchers found that large pediatric centers achieve low rates of delayed diagnosis of appendicitis while also having the lowest rates of CT use.

Laboratory tests revealed leukocytopenia (3.75/nL). This combination of leukocytopenia and cold symptoms, atypical for appendicitis, prompted consideration of COVID-19, which sometimes features ...

Abdominal pain is among the most common reasons children are taken to the emergency department. A small proportion of them ...