Diagnostic Essentials for Acute Appendicitis in Chinese medicine:
(1) This disease occurs frequently in young and middie-aged adults, more in males than in females.
(2) The shifting pain at the right lower abdomen is a typical clinical manifestation of this disease.
(3)  The patient is often accompanied by the general symptoms of fever, aversion to cold, nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension, and dry stool.
(4) Tenderness, rebound tenderness and muscular tension can be seen at the McMurray point (at the juncture of the external one-third and internal two-thirds of the line between the right anterior superior iliac spine and umbilicus) of the right lower abdomen in the abdominal examination. In the laboratory examination, the obvious enhancement in the total count of peripheral leukocyte and neutrophil ratio can be seen in over 70 % of the patients.

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