CONCLUSION
The standard treatment for acute appendicitis is surgery. AA constitutes
a significant part of emergency surgeries performed for acute abdomen
worldwide. AA surgery is performed laparoscopically in many centres
today. Recently, studies supporting antibiotic therapy have been
conducted in patients diagnosed with AA. In these studies, it was
observed that surgical treatment was more expensive and caused more
labour loss. Meta-analyses show that the non-surgical method is
successful. In the light of these data, we studied whether the
laboratory parameters used in the diagnosis of AA are markers in order
to determine whether the surgical or antibiotic treatment options will
be applied to patients with a diagnosis of uncomplicated AA. As a
result, we think that PDW, RDW, and platelet values in patients
diagnosed with uncomplicated AA may be a guide in choosing patients to
be treated with surgery or antibiotics. However, multi-centred
prospective studies with higher number of cases are needed to have an
idea about this issue.