%0 Journal Article
%T The management of acute appendicitis in liver transplant patients: How effective is the Alvarado score?
%A Asim Onur
%A Bora Barut
%A Burak Isik
%A Fatih Gonultas
%A Fatih Ozdemir
%A Koray Kutluturk
%A Ramazan Kutlu
%A Sezai Yilmaz
%A Veysel Ersan
%A Volkan Ince
%J Archive of "Northern Clinics of Istanbul".
%D 2017
%R 10.14744/nci.2017.24381
%X The incidence of acute appendicitis after liver transplantation (LT) is extremely low, reported to be 0.09% to 0.49%, but the efficacy of the Alvarado score in this patient group has not been studied. This study was an investigation of the clinical management of patients who developed acute appendicitis after LT and the usefulness of the Alvarado score in the diagnosis
%K Acute appendicitis
%K Alvarado
%K liver transplant
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5724922/