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Appendicitis is inflammation of the appendix. [2] Symptoms commonly include right lower abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, fever and decreased appetite. [2] However, approximately 40% of people do not have these typical symptoms. [2]
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Lockwood's sign is a medical sign that indicates Crohn's disease [1] and/or chronic appendicitis. [2] This sign is named after the English surgeon and anatomist, Charles Barrett Lockwood, who stated that: "The patient lies on his back with his head raised on a pillow and his knees drawn up, so that the superficial abdominal muscles are relaxed.
Appendicitis is one of those conditions that you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy. The pains are so excruciating you feel like you're going to die, and if left untreated and your appendix ...
Chronic pelvic pain is a common condition with rate of dysmenorrhoea between 16.8 and 81%, dyspareunia between 8-21.8%, and noncyclical pain between 2.1 and 24%. [ 30 ] According to the CDC , Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) accounted for approximately 9% of all visits to gynecologists in 2007. [ 31 ]
The hamburger sign is used in the diagnosis of appendicitis. [1] The sign is used to rule out that disease, with the physician inquiring if the patient would like to consume their favourite food. [2] If a patient wants to eat, consider a diagnosis other than appendicitis. Anorexia is 80% sensitive for appendicitis. [1]
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Rovsing's sign, named after the Danish surgeon Niels Thorkild Rovsing (1862–1927), [1] is a sign of appendicitis.If palpation of the left lower quadrant of a person's abdomen increases the pain felt in the right lower quadrant, the patient is said to have a positive Rovsing's sign and may have appendicitis.