Appendicitis
Most common acute surgical condition in pediatric age group incident is nearly nine percent in male children and seven percent in female children.
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What do you see – PresentationPain Abdomen followed by vomiting When I see such patients, I find..Tender Abdomen in right lower portion below the belly button Other CausesUreteral or renal calculus ovarian cyst Why Treatment…??Because if you don’t operate complications like appendicular perforation (hole in the intestine), pelvic abscess (pus in the tummy) and intestinal obstruction can occur. What is new in treatment?Now a days we operate all appendicitis whether early or late by LAPARASCOPIC METHOD. This has advantage of inspecting the entire abdomen Follow Up careThe hospital stay is for three days, the child can take normal food after 24 hrs of surgery, stitches dissolvable follow up visit after 10 days, can go to school after ten days. My ExperienceI have done more than three thousand open appendicectomies and a thousand laparoscopic appendicectomies, the problems almost nil in both. |