Appendicitis is a painful swelling and infection of the appendix What is appendix...

If there is one body organ that does not really serve any purpose that would be the appendix It’s a big question why it exists...

The inflammation of the appendix due to obstruction and bacterial growth causes the most common surgical emergency in children called appendicitis...

There may appear complications, which follow appendectomy, from which the most frequently encountered is the conversion of the incision into an actual wound that can vary in intensity or complexity from one case to another...

A precise diagnosis for appendicitis has a high degree of difficulty, due to the resemblance of appendicitis's symptoms to those indicating other inflammations...

The first steps in order to determine whether a patient has appendicitis or not are the patient's medical history and a physical series of exams...

Statistics show that in case of the 70 000 uninsured children in the US...