ACUTE APPENDICITIS - PERFORATED APPENDICITIS: ARE THEY DIFFERENTLY CLINICAL ANTITIES?

AKYILDIZ H. Y., AKCAN A. C., SÖZÜER E. M., Kucuk C., Korkut C., Ekici F.

EURASIAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE, cilt.7, sa.1, ss.13-15, 2008 (ESCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 7 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2008
  • Dergi Adı: EURASIAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.13-15
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: acute appendicitis, perforated appendicitis, acute abdomen
  • Erciyes Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Background: Acute appendicitis is one of the most common cause of acute abdomen with the peak incidence in early adulthood. After the obstruction of the lumen by different causes, progressive inflammation and distention leads to the necrosis and perforation of the appendix wall, is the pathogenesis widely accepted by surgeons. According to this pathogenesis, perforated appendicitis is the result of nontreated acute appendicitis. But according to an other opinion supported by few authors, perforated appendicitis is a different entity. In this study, our aim was to evaluate which of these two opinions was relevant to the clinical practice.