PATHOPHYSIOLOGY: APPENDICITIS

tumor foreign body fecal mass stricture infection

fecal movement in the earlier parts of the
tension
continues movement of new
materials down the digestive
fecal impaction
backflow
reaches the
irritation
blood flow immune
aggravation of
condition
imflammatio edema fever pai
mass stretching of
APPENDICITIS
ruptur
release of fecal materias in the abdominal
reaches the
immune
PERITONI
appendectom
(! abdominal incision
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operative site (cecum!
Immune
response
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inflammatio pain fever risk for