**Acute Appendicitis: Key Facts to Know!
** Acute Appendicitis: Key Facts to Know!** 🔹 **Epidemiology**: - Most common in ages 10–19 - More frequent in boys and men 🔹 **Clinical Symptoms**: - Right lower quadrant (RLQ) abdominal pain - Nausea, vomiting, anorexia - Periumbilical pain moving to RLQ - Fever 🔹 **Atypical Symptoms**: - Dyspepsia, flatulence - Bowel irregularity, diarrhea - General malaise 🔹 **Physical Exam Findings**: - **McBurney Point**: Pain 2/3 distance from umbilicus to anterior superior iliac spine - **Rovsing Sign**: Palpation in LLQ causes pain in RLQ - **Psoas Sign**: Pain on hip extension (retrocecal appendicitis) - **Obturator Sign**: Pain on internal rotation of the hip (pelvic appendicitis) 🔹 **Management**: - Appendectomy is the treatment of choice - Antibiotics rese...