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  2. Appendicitis - Wikipedia

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    Appendicitis is one of the most frequent diagnoses for emergency department visits resulting in hospitalization among children ages 5–17 years in the United States. [ 108 ] Adults presenting to the emergency department with a known family history of appendicitis are more likely to have this disease than those without.

  3. Epiploic appendagitis - Wikipedia

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    Epiploic appendagitis (EA) is an uncommon, benign, self-limiting inflammatory process of the epiploic appendices.Other, older terms for the process include appendicitis epiploica and appendagitis, but these terms are used less now in order to avoid confusion with acute appendicitis.

  4. Markle's sign - Wikipedia

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    acute appendicitis Markle's sign , or jar tenderness , is a clinical sign in which pain in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen is elicited by the heel-drop test (dropping to the heels, from standing on the toes, with a jarring landing).

  5. Appendicitis Inflammatory Response score - Wikipedia

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    The AIR score was developed to overcome some of the drawbacks of the Alvarado score, another diagnostic scoring system for identifying appendicitis. [2] The AIR score is one of the two scores (the other being the Adult Appendicitis Score , AAS) recommended by the 2020 World Society of Emergency Surgery clinical practice guidelines for the ...

  6. Pelvic abscess - Wikipedia

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    Pelvic abscess is a collection of pus in the pelvis, typically occurring following lower abdominal surgical procedures, or as a complication of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), appendicitis, or lower genital tract infections. [1]

  7. Alvarado score - Wikipedia

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    Alvarado scoring has largely been superseded as a clinical prediction tool by the Appendicitis Inflammatory Response score. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Also known by the mnemonic MANTRELS, the scale has 6 clinical items (3 signs and 3 symptoms ) and 2 laboratory measurements, each given an additive point score, with a maximum of 10 points possible. [ 5 ]

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  9. eMedicine - Wikipedia

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    eMedicine is an online clinical medical knowledge base founded in 1996 by doctors Scott Plantz and Jonathan Adler, and computer engineers Joanne Berezin and Jeffrey Berezin. The eMedicine website consists of approximately 6,800 medical topic review articles, each of which is associated with a clinical subspecialty "textbook".