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Atypical appendicitis (associated with suppurative appendicitis) is more challenging to diagnose and is more apt to be complicated even when operated early. In either condition, prompt diagnosis and appendectomy yield the best results with full recovery in two to four weeks usually.
If properly treated, typical cases of surgically correctable peritonitis (e.g., perforated peptic ulcer, appendicitis, and diverticulitis) have a mortality rate of about <10% in otherwise healthy people. The mortality rate rises to 35% in peritonitis patients who develop sepsis, and patients who have underlying renal insufficiency and ...
Acute appendicitis: Dietl's crisis Renal colic, swelling in loin which disappears after urination Hydronephrosis Fanconi syndrome triad: Aminoaciduria, Proteinuria, Phosphaturia: Fanconi syndrome: Female athlete triad: eating disorders, amenorrhoea, decreased bone mineral density: Relative energy deficiency in sport: Felty triad
pathology: various including trauma and neoplasm: basophilic inclusions in peripheral cytoplasm of neutrophils Doi's sign: Hitoka Doi: neurology: Eaton–Lambert syndrome: reappearance of absent deep tendon reflexes after short period of maximal muscle contraction Dunphy's sign: Osborne Joby Dunphy: surgery: appendicitis: increase in abdominal ...
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.
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Alder's sign, also known as Klein's sign, [1] is a medical sign used to differentiate between appendicitis and tubo-ovarian pathology. [2] References