The objective of this research is to insist on the most important symptoms and signs
of appendicitis and diagnosis in a timely manner to avoid complications and deaths. The
aim of the study was to establish diagnostic criteria for acute appendiciti
s in children in the
light of the data obtained from the study of a large number of patients with appendicitis
and to determine the surgical indication to reduce complications and negative abdominal
opening and to include the studied criteria in a spec
ial scale in our patients to evaluate children with acute appendicitis depending On
this scale. The study included 104 children who visited the Pediatric emergency
department at Al-Assad University and University Hospital and Tishreen university
Hospital with a complaint of abdominal pain between 2014 and 2016. The number of male
patients was 76 patients and 28 females, abdominal pain was present in all patients, The
following criteria were studied (abdominal pain, abdominal tenderness, rebound
tenderness, ultra sound, leukocytosis, shift to left, fever,crp). These criteria were studied to
diagnose acute appendicitis and to put them in a special scale for use in diagnosis or denial
acute appendicitis. In comparison with international standards, we observed that the scale
studied in our study is more objective and eliminates the subjective factor in the diagnosis
of appendicitis.
