Incidence of Negative Appendicectomy in Clinically Diagnosed Patients of Acute Appendicitis.

ABSTRACT

This study was conducted in the department of Surgery, Mymensingh Medical College Hospital, Mymensingh, Bangladesh from January 2016 to December 2017 and performed to assess the negative appendicectomy on histopathology followed by clinically and laboratory investigations based diagnosed acute appendicitis. To perform this prospective study 200 patients with pain in right iliac fossa of both sexes randomly selected and were evaluated by history, clinical examination, laboratory investigations (USG, CBC) and scoring system. Among 200 patients male 124 and female 76 under went appendicectomy 36 were histopathologically normal appendix. Over all negative appendicectomy (NAR) 18%, among them 14.5% (18/124) were male & 23.67% (18/76) were female.