Department of Nursing, University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
She is currently working as a Nurse in the Department of Nursing. Her research interests includes Clinical Nursing, Nursing Ethics, Nursing Diagnosis, Nursing Administration, Autonomy . she is serving as an editorial member and reviewer of several international reputed journals. She has successfully completed his Administrative
Case Report
Appendicitis after Appendectomy: A Rare Case
Author(s): Sidra Nadeem* and Muhammad Bilal Shahid
Acute appendicitis is the most common surgical emergency encountered in daily practice setting and appendectomy is most familiar surgical intervention performed in surgical emergency department. The correct diagnose remain tricky even though there are many options available for diagnosis. It becomes very difficult for surgeons to reach on exact diagnose when the patient gave history of previous history of appendectomy. Stump appendicitis is a very rare complication after appendectomy and leading causes of morbidity among children. Stump appendicitis is defined as acute infection of residual appendix. Stump appendicitis is very difficult to diagnose and required a competent surgical tool to quickly evaluate after appendectomy. Instead of having advancement in the field of technology and imaging sciences still the condition is prone to threat and cases of stump appendicitis h.. View more»