Abstract

MORALES GONZALEZ, Raúl A et al. Morbilidad y mortalidad de la apendicitis aguda en los pacientes geriátricos, 1990-1999. Rev Cubana Cir [online]. 2002, vol.41, n.1, pp. 28-32. ISSN 1561-2945.

A descriptive and retrospective study of all the patients aged 60 and over with the clinical and anatomopathologic diagnosis of acute appendicitis that were attended at "Celia Sánchez Manduley" Provincial Clinical and Surgical Teaching Hospital, in Manzanillo, during the last decade, was conducted. Aspects such as age, sex, characteristics of pain, results of the white blood cell count, time of evolution up to the diagnosis, anatomopathologic state of the appendix and complications were analyzed. The disease was more frequent in men. The atypic pain predominated and the white blood cell count had a poor diagnostic value. The disease was treated late and an important number of complications were observed

Keywords : APPENDICITIS [epidemiology]; APPENDICITIS [complications]; INDICATORS OF MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY.

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