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  2. 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 ...

  3. 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.

  4. 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    Alvarado scoring has largely been superseded as a clinical prediction tool by the Appendicitis Inflammatory Response score.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 ]

  5. Pediatric gastroenterology - Wikipedia

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    The combination to make a pediatric gastroenterological a specialty emerged in the 1960s, almost a century after the specialties of pediatrics and gastroenterology started out individually. All pediatric specialties started out with the concept that children with special needs were not receiving the adequate medical attention that they needed. [1]

  6. Markle's sign - Wikipedia

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    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).

  7. Rovsing's sign - Wikipedia

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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.

  8. 'Sushi was moving': Restaurant closes after influencer's ...

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    A popular Washington sushi restaurant has closed two of its locations after a viral TikTok video posted by influencer Keith Lee sparked food safety concerns.

  9. Heel tap sign - Wikipedia

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    Heel tap sign, also called heel-jar or jar tenderness, is a clinical sign to identify appendicitis.It is found in patients with localized peritonitis.With the patient supine the right heel is elevated by 10-20 degrees is hit firmly with palm of the examiner's hand.