Open AccessA Comparative Study of RIPASA Score and ALVARADO Score in the Diagnosis of Acute Appendicitis
Author(s) -
Ayad Ahmad Mohammed,
Shanbhag,
Kalpana Ashfaque
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2014/9055.5170
Subject(s) - alvarado score , medicine , acute appendicitis , appendicitis , population , histopathology , radiology , surgery , pathology , environmental health
Acute appendicitis is one of the most common surgical emergencies. Different techniques have been devised to assist in equivocal cases in attempts to decrease negative appendicectomy rates. A number of scoring systems have been used for aiding in early diagnosis of acute appendicitis and its prompt management of which Alvarado score is the most popular. The accuracy of Alvarado score in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis is disappointingly low in Asian population and RIPASA scoring has been designed for the diagnosis of acute appendicitis in the Asian population. So we prospectively applied and compared Alvarado and RIPASA score in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis in Indian population.