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SURGERY
“APPENDICITIS”
• Appendicitis
• UTI
• Renal colic
• Terminal ileitis 20 Crohn’s dizz
• Mechel's diverticulum
• Ectopic pregnancy
• Ovarian cyst
• Salpingitis
• PID
Appendicitis
• Not clear
• Pointing sign
• Obturator test
seen in pelvic appendicitis due to irritation of
obturator muscle. Flexion and medial rotation of hip
produces pain
• Baldwing’s sign; pain on lifting both legs and
pressing on the right frank
• Hyperaesthesia in ‘Sherren’s triangle’. This triangle
is formed by anterior superior iliac spine, umbilicus,
• pubic symphysis.
• Features of generalised peritonitis
• DRE