REVIEW ARTICLE | OPEN ACCESSDOI: 10.23937/2378-3397/1410098
Improved Alvarado Score (MANTRELS) for the Early Diagnosis of Acute Appendicitis
Alfredo Alvarado, MD1,2,3,4,5*
1Alma mater: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2Certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Emergency Medicine
3International College of Surgeons, Chicago IL, USA
4Society of Laparoscopic Surgeons, Chicago IL, USA
5American College of emergency Physicians, Irving TX, USA
Abstract
After a careful analysis of various diagnostic scores on acute appendicitis I am introducing here an Improved Alvarado score (MANTRELS) that includes several substitute predictive factors aimed to obtain better clinical results.