Table 1:

Complicating clinical and radiologic features in appendicitis

Clinical featureRadiologic feature

  • Signs of sepsis or shock

  • Peritonitis

  • Immunocompromise

  • Pregnancy

  • Children (< 18 yr)

  • Older adults (> 60 yr)

  • Fecalith

  • Abscess

  • Phlegmon

  • Free ascites

  • Free air

  • Neoplasm