%0 Journal Article %T Role of Laboratory Markers in Predicting Severity of Acute Appendicitis %A P. T. Sundeep %A Padubidri Santosh Prabhu %A Samarth Virmani %A Vijay Kumar %J Archive of "African Journal of Paediatric Surgery: AJPS". %D 2018 %R 10.4103/ajps.AJPS_47_16 %X Accurately differentiating simple and complicated acute appendicitis (CAA) in children preoperatively can be challenging. The aim of this study is to evaluate the ability of the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), total leukocyte count (TLC), percentage lymphocyte, and percentage neutrophil counts to predict the type of appendicitis a patient has preoperatively and to determine the better indicator among these %K Appendicitis %K lymphocyte %K neutrophil %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6419549/