Acute appendicitis is the commonest global
abdominal surgical emergency. It’s incidence is low
in high dietary fibre consumers. It is rarely
encountered before the age of two years, reaches its
peack during second and third decades and then
declines,but no age is immune. Perforation of the
inflammed appendix is encountered commonly at the
extremes of age. Although considered one of the most
elemental of general surgical disease process,
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