This study describes the clinical profile of acute appendicitis in a tertiary care center in North East India, noting that anorexia is a nearly universal symptom.
Does not support changing appendicitis diagnostic criteria; leaves open generalizability beyond this single-center case report.
Acute appendicitis is the leading cause of surgical acute abdomen worldwide with a prevalence of approximately 7% of population. There are very few studies conducted on the clinical profile of acute appendicitis in the North East region of India. Therefore, this research is conducted to know the clinical profile of acute appendicitis. Aims and Objectives-To study the clinical profile of acute appendicitis treated at a tertiary care centre at the Department of Surgery, Tripura Medical College and Dr. BRAM Teaching Hospital, Tripura state. One hundred and fifty cases (150) of acute appendicitis were studied in detail and were compared with previous data from literature. All the one hundred and fifty cases were brought to our hospital as a case of acute abdomen. All age group of patients were included in this study, since we have no separate paediatric surgery department. Anorexia nearly always accompanies appendicitis in these cases.
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