Table 1 Alvarado score (score ≥7 = high-risk for appendicitis) and paediatric appendicitis score (Samuel score; adopted according to G. Thompson [11]). RLQ right lower quadrant of the abdomen

Diagnostic criteria

Value

Diagnostic criteria

Value

Migration pain to RLQ

1

Migration pain to RLQ

1

Anorexia/acetone in urine

1

Anorexia

1

Nausea–vomiting

1

Nausea/emesis

1

Tenderness in RLQ

2

Tenderness in RLQ

2

Rebound pain

1

Cough/percussion tenderness

2

Temperature ≥ 37.3 °C

1

Pyrexia (not defined)

1

Leucocytosis (>10 x 10³/L

2

Leucocytosis (> 10x10³/L)

1

Leucocyte shift to left (>75 %)

1

Neutrophilia

1

Total score

10

Total score

10