DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2017.v05i07.063

Pages: 2836-2844

Acute appendicitis is the most common abdominal surgical emergency. The diagnosis may be easy but many times it may be very difficult. The clinical diagnosis of appendicitis is wrongly made many times as it is initially over looked, leading to unnecessary surgery or delay in surgery. The commonest finding by USG, when appendix was visualized were blind ended tubular structure, non compressible and target lesion. During USG, decrease in probe tenderness was found to be an important finding as all these cases had perforated appendix. Maximum number of cases as detected by USG and operation had retrocaecal appendix. Histopathologically 90% cases had acute appendicitis and rest of the cases had acute on chronic appendicitis. Thus, in the present era, it could be said that USG is an essential investigation whenever suspected case of appendicitis has come.