Title: Evaluation of Alvarado Score in the Diagnosis of Acute Appendicitis
Author: Shubhi Bhatnagar
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v5i11.100
Abstract
Acute appendicitis is a common and serious surgical illness with protean manifestations, generous overlap with other clinical syndromes, and significant morbidity, which increases with diagnostic delay. It can be diagnosed by computerized tomography scan of abdomen accurately but this is not always feasible due to its higher cost. Hence the need of a good scoring system is required. Alvarado scoring system is one scoring system used to diagnose acute appendicitis. 100 cases of pain in right iliac fossa were evaluated in terms of Alvarado score. Postoperative histopathology reports of appendix were compared with the Alvarado scores. It was seen in our study that 75% of cases showed a higher Alvarado score out of 99 histopathologically positive cases. Alvarado score is hence an efficient scoring system in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis.
Keywords: acute appendicitis, Alvarado score.
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