Conclusions: Ultrasound scan improves diagnostic accuracy in children with suspected appendicitis.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp missed the visit of Sunderland to Anfield on Saturday after coming down with suspected appendicitis.

A surgical team from the Netherlands now leaves normal appendixes alone when laproscopic investigation of suspected appendicitis has negative results.

Pain was so intense in two children that they received emergency surgery for suspected appendicitis, which was ultimately diagnosed as mesenteric lymphadenitis.

Surgical residents would get one point for every patient with a suspected appendicitis that they examined and calculated an Alvarado score for.

Sir, -My daughter was admitted to AE at the Mater hospital last Wednesday, April 25th, with abdominal pain and suspected appendicitis.