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Karembé Boubacar, Tounkara Idrissa, Diarra Issaka, Soumaré Modibo Dianguina, Traoré Boureima, Sanogo Seydou, Diallo Moctar, Camara Aboubacar, Touré Aboubacar, Coulibaly Abdoulaye, Fall Ibrahim, Diakité Mané, Diarra Mouminy, Diarra Drissa, Traoré Abdoulaye, Coulibaly Yacaria, Kanté Lassana, Dembélé Bakary Tientigui, Togo Adégné

Départment of Surgery, CHU Gabriel Touré, Bamako, Mali.

Objectives: The main goal of this study is to determine the hospital frequency of appendicular abscess, to describe the diagnostic and therapeutic aspects and to analyze the postoperative follow-up. Methodology: This was a descriptive and analytical prospective study from January 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021 including patients admitted to our department for appendicular abscess diagnosed pre- and or intraoperatively and confirmed to histology. Results: We collected 30 appendicular abscesses that accounted for 18.75% of emergency interventions. The 16 - 25 age group was the most represented at 53%. The average age was 24 years with extremes of 10 and 58 years. The male sex was mostly represented (60%) with a sex ratio of 1.5. The majority of our patients were students (53.3%). The main clinical signs found were abdominal pain and vomiting (100%). The pain was localized in the Right Iliac Fossa (RIF) in 80% of cases. Fever was present in all our patients with a temperature between 38˚C and 38.5˚C. The physical examination found pain with defense of the right iliac fossa in 93.3% of cases. A painful mass was present in 27 patients (90%). Treatment consisted of appendectomy with abscess drainage in all patients. Postoperative follow-up was simple in 83.3% of cases; we recorded three cases (10%) of parietal suppuration, one case of fistula (3.3%) and one death. Conclusion: Appendicular abscess is a medical-surgical emergency frequent surgery in our context because of the delay in diagnosis. It is a condition with low morbidity and mortality subject to early diagnosis and prompt and appropriate treatment.

Abscess, Appendix, Surgery

Boubacar, K. , Idrissa, T. , Issaka, D. , Dianguina, S. , Boureima, T. , Seydou, S. , Moctar, D. , Aboubacar, C. , Aboubacar, T. , Abdoulaye, C. , Ibrahim, F. , Mané, D. , Mouminy, D. , Drissa, D. , Abdoulaye, T. , Yacaria, C. , Lassana, K. , Tientigui, D. and Adégné, T. (2023) Appendicular Abscess: Epidemio-Clinical and Therapeutic Aspects in the General Surgery Department of the Reference Health Center of Commune III (C.s.ref CIII) of the District of Bamako. Surgical Science, 14, 77-83. doi: 10.4236/ss.2023.142010.