[Errors in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis in women caused by the anatomical and physiological characteristics of their bodies].
Some fundamentals of the causes of diagnostic errors depending upon anatomophysiological and topographo-anatomical peculiarities of woman's organism are given. The tension of abdominal muscles in case of inflammatory gynecological diseases or the abscence of the anterior abdominal wall tension in acute surgical diseases of the abdominal organs, especially in pregnant women make one of such causes. The explanation and experimental evidence of the role played by the connective branches of the intercostal nerves in the contraction of abdominal muscles are presented. The author recommends some palpation methods which help to differentiate the abdominal muscles tension in peritonitis of surgical origin from that of gynecological origin.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000818:Animals; D001062:Appendectomy; D001064:Appendicitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D004285:Dogs; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D012737:Sex Factors
Oshibki v diagnostike ostrogo appenditsita u zhenshchin, obuslovlennye anatomo-fiziologicheskimi osobennostiami organizma.