CURRENT VIEWS AND CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF ACUTE APPENDICITIS AND APPENDICULAR PERITONITIS IN CHILDREN

Abstract

Acute appendicitis is the most common urgent disease in pediatric surgery (75% of emergency operations). Not only pediatric surgeons, but also pediatricians, pediatric gastroenterologists, and pediatric gynecologists have to deal with appendicitis in children. In childhood, inflammation of the cecum develops rapidly, which causes an increase in destructive changes in the appendix in a relatively short time. With appendicitis in a child, the peritoneum is often involved in the inflammatory process, leading to the development of appendicular peritonitis. The peak incidence of appendicitis in children (more than 80% of cases) is at school age, in preschool children the disease occurs in 13%, in toddlers - in 5% of cases.