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.