A Dissertation on Non Traumatic Abdominal Emergencies
Y. Satish Reddy
Department of General Surgery, Sree Balaji Medical College & Hospital Affiliated to Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Abstract
The incidence of appendicitis is most commonly seen in the age group of non traumatic abdominal emergencies between 15 and 25 accounting for 30% of all the studied cases. In this studied cases males were predominantly affected. The main cause of viscus perforations are Duodenal perforation percentage. This study results shows the male preponderance and also a decrease in age of peptic ulcer majorly due to typhoid. The most commonest hernias to become obstructed is inguinal hernia. Small bowel obstruction seems to be disease of the young as shown by our series. Both the sexes were mostly affected from our findings. Maximum in the 0-10 age group, we had only 3.9% of such cases in our study. The female incidence (56.3%) predominated over the male incidence (43.7%).
Keywords: Perforations, appendicitis, typhoid, abdominal emergencies