Peculiarities of diagnosis of acute appendicitis in children

It is known that in clinical medicine there are more than PO symptoms of acute appendicitis. Analysis of the literature shows that in most cases only an extremely small part of them (3-6) is used for the diagnosis of acute appendicitis. It seems to us that such an artificial narrowing of the entire symptomatology of acute appendicitis is methodologically incorrect. Despite the availability of new instrumental methods of examination (liquid crystal thermography, electromyography, diagnostic laparoscopy, computer gamma scintigraphy, tomography), their use, unfortunately, is sharply limited in those medical institutions where children with abdominal pain are hospitalized. Therefore, the informative value of various diagnostic techniques proposed by experienced surgeons deserves careful study.