National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
To study the incidence, age and sex distribution of acute appendicitis in patients with right lower quadrant pain and correlation of ultrasonographic findings with operative findings in acute appendicitis. This study was under taken from December 2013 to December 2015. Total number of cases studied were 100 and controls were 50 and this includes both out patients attending the Department of Surgery, CAIMS, Karimnagar. The cases were clinically diagnosed as acute appendicitis. The controls were selected randomly from the patients who were admitted in surgery Department other than clinical suspicion of acute appendicitis. More than 63% of cases occurred in 2nd and 3rd decade and males were more affected than females Commonest US feature was target sign and commonest position of appendix was retro caecal appendix. False negatives were 3, false positive was 1. Sensitivity of our study was 96.20% and specificity of study was 95.23%. Positive predictive value was 98.70% and Negative predictive value was 86.95%. P-value of our study was 0.0001. Ultrasonography should be the primary imaging procedure for patients suspected to have acute appendicitis. Sonography is also helpful in detecting of complications of appendicitis and for other abdominal diseases that mimic appendicitis.
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