Open AccessAlvarado score as an admission criterion in children with pain in right iliac fossa
Author(s) -
Khalid Shreef,
Amira Waly,
Sarhan Abd-Elrahman,
Mohamed ElHafez
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
african journal of paediatric surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.163
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 0189-6725
pISSN - 0974-5998
DOI - 10.4103/0189-6725.70417
Subject(s) - medicine , alvarado score , iliac fossa , physical therapy , surgery , scoring system
Acute appendicitis is an important differential diagnosis in children with pain in the right iliac fossa. Some patients have equivocal signs that make the diagnosis difficult. Many patients with suspected acute appendicitis are admitted for observation and finally discharged because they did not have appendicitis. We decided to design this study to investigate whether the Alvarado score could be used by emergency room doctors as a criterion for admission to hospital.