| Unequivocal international guidelines regarding the diagnosis and management of patients with acute appendicitis are
lacking. To determine the sensitivity and specificity of sonography in diagnosing acute appendicitis in patients with
abdominal pain. All reports relating to appendicitis wereretrospectively obtained from archived reports of our department
and it is correlatedwith the histopathology reports. the accurate diagnosis of position of appendix & appendicitis is a
combination of all the modalities and not just dependent on one basis in order to prevent post appendicectomy complications
and symptoms. The sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, positive and negative predicative values of sonography are comparable
to statistics quoted in the literature. The most common error was the tendency to misclassify appendixes < 6 mmddd |
