ACUTE APPENDICITIS AND ASSOCIATED PATHOLOGIES IN FEMALES

Kadhem, Ali Hameed; Muhsin, Aamena AbdulAmeer; Al-Sewadi, Wisam Hamza

doi:10.33762/bsurg.2020.165491

	ACUTE APPENDICITIS AND ASSOCIATED PATHOLOGIES IN FEMALES
Basrah Journal of Surgery
Article 13, Volume 26, Issue 1, 2020, Pages 69-73 PDF (474.71 K)
DOI: 10.33762/bsurg.2020.165491
Authors
Ali Hameed Kadhem¹; Aamena AbdulAmeer Muhsin²; Wisam Hamza Al-Sewadi³
¹MB,ChB, CABS, Consultant General Surgeon, Alsadr Teaching Hospital.
²MB,ChB, Arab Board Candidate, Alsadr Teaching Hospital, Basrah.
³CABS, FACS, FRCS, FICSMRCS, F.MAS, General and laparoscopic Surgeon, Al-Zahraa College of Medicine, University of Basrah, Basrah, IRAQ.
Abstract
In females with right lower quadrant acute abdominal pain, gynecological & obstetric pathologies are the main disorders that should be eliminated from the diagnosis of acute appendicitis. This study included pathologic findings in 120 appendectomies in Al-Sadr Teaching Hospital in which exploration was performed as emergency acute appendectomies in 52 cases, while other pathologic processes related to gynecological diseases are distanced from appendicitis intraoperatively. There is a high percentage of coexistence with ovarian cyst in all its types whether twisted, ruptured, hemorrhagic or corpus luteal cyst. Other conditions included: ectopic pregnancy, uterine fibroid, Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID), Tubo-Ovarian Abscess (TOA), benign cyst adenoma & endometriosis. Also rarely, meckel's diverticulum that was either incidental finding or discovered by imaging techniques.
Keywords
surgery; Associated pathologies; Abdomen; Acute appendicitis; females

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