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Ayman Shemes1, Amr A Elgharib2, Ahmed Elghrieb3

  • 1Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt. aymanshemes@mans.edu.eg.

Langenbeck'S Archives of Surgery
|February 18, 2026
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Keywords:
Acute abdomenAcute appendicitisAlvarado scoreAppendicitis inflammatory response score (AIR)The RIPASA (Raja isteri pengiran anak saleha appendicitis) score and AAS (Adult appendicitis score)

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