From our institutional surgical database, we identified retrospectively 778 patients who underwent appendectomy between January 1 and December 31 of the years 1995 and 1998. Twelve (2%) of these ...

Computed tomography (CT) has become the predominant test for diagnosing acute appendicitis in adults. In children and young adults, exposure to CT radiation is of particular concern. We evaluated the ...

Community hospitals are more than 4 times more likely than pediatric institutions to use radiation-exposing computed tomography (CT) scans and 80% less likely to use ultrasound for pre-appendectomy ...

In your lower abdomen, you have a small, finger-shaped pouch – your appendix. It doesn’t do much – in fact, doctors aren’t sure exactly what it does – and for the most part, you will never realize ...

Appendicitis develops when your appendix — a small pouch attached to your large intestine — becomes inflamed. The most obvious sign of appendicitis is a sharp pain in your abdomen, but the symptom can ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you've had stomach pain recently, you might have wondered how to check if you have appendicitis at home. Appendicitis is the ...

Appendicitis is inflammation of the appendix. The appendix is a small, pouch-like sac of tissue that is located in the lower- right abdomen. It is a narrow tubular pouch attached to the intestines.