Red Blood cell distribution width: an emerging diagnostic factor of acute appendicitis?

Acute appendicitis is the most common surgical abdominal emergency. Immidiate diagnosis of this disease is crucial, because this condition can lead to appendiceal perforation, potential peritonitis, and even death. We read with great interest the article ‘The role of red cell distribution width (RDW...

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Autores principales: Karagöz, Ergenekon, Tanoglu, Alpaslan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3877950/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24369056
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-8-54
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description Acute appendicitis is the most common surgical abdominal emergency. Immidiate diagnosis of this disease is crucial, because this condition can lead to appendiceal perforation, potential peritonitis, and even death. We read with great interest the article ‘The role of red cell distribution width (RDW) in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis: a retrospective case-controlled study’ by Narci et al. and wanted to discuss whether RDW alone provide certain information about the inflammatory status of the patient with acute appendicitis.
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spelling pubmed-38779502014-01-03 Red Blood cell distribution width: an emerging diagnostic factor of acute appendicitis? Karagöz, Ergenekon Tanoglu, Alpaslan World J Emerg Surg Letter to the Editor Acute appendicitis is the most common surgical abdominal emergency. Immidiate diagnosis of this disease is crucial, because this condition can lead to appendiceal perforation, potential peritonitis, and even death. We read with great interest the article ‘The role of red cell distribution width (RDW) in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis: a retrospective case-controlled study’ by Narci et al. and wanted to discuss whether RDW alone provide certain information about the inflammatory status of the patient with acute appendicitis. BioMed Central 2013-12-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3877950/ /pubmed/24369056 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-8-54 Text en Copyright © 2013 Karagöz and Tanoglu; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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