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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. Farhang-e-Asifiya - Wikipedia

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    Farhang-e-Asifiya (Urdu: فرہنگ آصفیہ, lit. 'The Dictionary of Asif') is an Urdu-to-Urdu dictionary compiled by Syed Ahmad Dehlvi. [1] It has more than 60,000 entries in four volumes. [2] It was first published in January 1901 by Rifah-e-Aam Press in Lahore, present-day Pakistan. [3] [4]

  5. Appendectomy - Wikipedia

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    If appendicitis develops in a pregnant woman, an appendectomy is usually performed and should not harm the fetus. [15] The risk of premature delivery is about 10%. [16] The risk of fetal death in the perioperative period after an appendectomy for early acute appendicitis is 3 to 5%. The risk of fetal death is 20% in perforated appendicitis. [17]

  6. List of eponymous medical signs - Wikipedia

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    appendicitis: Advances in Pediatrics. JP Medical Ltd. p. 1432. ISBN 978-93-5025-777-7. tenderness in the right lower quadrant increases when the patient moves from the supine position to a recumbent posture on the left side Rossolimo's sign: Grigory Ivanovich Rossolimo: neurology: pyramidal tract lesions

  7. Pelvic abscess - Wikipedia

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    It may occur as a complication of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), appendicitis, diverticulitis, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), trauma, pelvic organ cancer, or lower genital tract infections. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] The abscess may be in the pouch of Douglas , fallopian tube , ovary , or parametrium . [ 1 ]

  8. 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".

  9. 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 ...