Table 6 --Clinical Features of Appendicitis


Symptoms

 

Duration of symptoms (hrs, median)

22.0 hrs

Abdominal pain (% of cases)

100.0

Nausea or vomiting (% of cases)

67.5

Anorexia (% of cases)

61.0

Fever by history (% of cases)

17.9

Dysuria or frequency (% of cases)

10.6

Physical Findings

 

Right lower quadrant tenderness (% of cases)

95.9

Rebound tenderness (% of cases)

69.5

Rectal tenderness (% of cases)

41.5



Source: Berry J Jr, Malt RA. Appendicitis near its centenary. Ann Surg 1984;200:567.