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Appendicitis is inflammation of the appendix. [2] Symptoms commonly include right lower abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and decreased appetite. [2] However, approximately 40% of people do not have these typical symptoms. [2]
The Alvarado score is a clinical scoring system used in the diagnosis of appendicitis. [1] Alvarado scoring has largely been superseded as a clinical prediction tool by the Appendicitis Inflammatory Response score.
The scoring system was developed in 2008. [1] The AIR score was developed to overcome some of the drawbacks of the Alvarado score, another diagnostic scoring system for identifying appendicitis. [2]
Murphy's triad was named after John Benjamin Murphy, an American physician and abdominal surgeons and one of the earliest advocates for the intervention of the removal of the appendix in all cases of appendicitis.
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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.
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