Minerva chirurgica
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Acute appendicitis is the most frequent cause of surgical emergency in pediatric age. The aim of this study has been to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of a scoring system, retrospectively applied, to the clinical and laboratory parameters in patients with acute appendicitis. ⋯ With the present work we confirm the utility of a scoring system in the preoperative diagnosis of acute appendicitis and in our opinion it is a useful system for a first, rapid and economic evaluation in the pediatric emergency department.