Can Red Cell Distribution Width and Neutrophil/ Lymphocyte Ratio Be Used as Adjuvant Parameters to Support Computed Tomography in Prediction of Diagnosis and Severity of Acute Appendicitis in the Elderly Patients? |Biomedgrid

Acute appendicitis is the most common emergency surgical pathology in the general population. Even though numerous studies have been carried out to predict the clinical courses and treatment methods of the disease in patients with AA in recent years, clinical courses and findings of the disease may vary in the elderly patients. In the present study, we analyzed the correlation of RDW, WBC, CRP and NLR when used as inflammatory parameters with appendix diameter in elderly patients and assessed the predictive reliability in the preoperative diagnosis of elderly patients.