A CLINICAL STUDY OF APPENDICITIS WITH RELATION TO INTRA OPERATIVE POSITION AND POST OPERATIVE OUTE COME

Abstract

Background/ objectives Clinical picture of appendicitis varies with position of appendix and is a subject of controversy with many questions. The objective is to study the various positions of appendix and relation of the position to clinical Presentation and postoperative outcome. All patients undergoing appendectomy in viswabharathi medical college, Kurnool betweenMethods: march 2021 to march 2022 are included in this study. There were total 50 cases, commonest position of appendix is Retro-caecalResults: (32.6%), Followed by post-ileal (26.6%), pelvic (21.3%), paracaecal (8%), sub caecal (5.3%), pre-ileal (4%). Certain positions like xed retro- caecal, pelvic and post- ileal presented more often atypically. Only 3 of 29(10.3%) cases with typical presentation had complications whereas 11 of the 21 cases (52.4%) with atypical presentation had complications.