A study to evaluate the effectiveness of Alvarado scoring system in diagnosis of acute appendicitis

Rajneesh Kumar; Vinod Yedalwar; Piyush K Shrivastava; Anshuman Sharma

doi:10.53730/ijhs.v6nS2.6450

A study to evaluate the effectiveness of Alvarado scoring system in diagnosis of acute appendicitis

https://doi.org/10.53730/ijhs.v6nS2.6450

Authors

Rajneesh Kumar Third year Post graduate resident, Department of Surgery, SSMC Rewa
Vinod Yedalwar Professor, Department of Surgery, SSMC Rewa
Piyush K Shrivastava Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, SSMC Rewa
Anshuman Sharma Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, SSMC Rewa

Keywords:

acute appendicitis, evaluate, effectiveness, scoring system

Abstract

Acute appendicitis stays a typical careful crisis all through the world. Regardless of the steadily developing headways in the field of diagnostics the recognizing acute appendicitis stays a mystery for the specialists all throughout the planet. Specialists utilize distinctive scoring frameworks and clinical models to diagnose acute appendicitis and reduction the negative appendectomy rates. The Alvarado scoring system (Alvarado 1989) which was adjusted by Kalan et at 1994 is an easy to utilize and simple to apply scoring framework since it depends on history, clinical assessment and an essential lab examination.

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Published

22-04-2022

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Kumar, R., Yedalwar, V., Shrivastava, P. K., & Sharma, A. (2022). A study to evaluate the effectiveness of Alvarado scoring system in diagnosis of acute appendicitis. International Journal of Health Sciences, 6(S2), 5749–5752. https://doi.org/10.53730/ijhs.v6nS2.6450

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Vol. 6 No. S2 (2022)

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