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To evaluate the possible relationship between RIPASA scores and the histopathological examination results of appendectomy materials.<jats:italic> Materials and Methods<\/jats:italic>. This study retrospectively reviews 242 patients who were operated in our clinic between January 2016 and January 2018 with a prediagnosis of acute appendicitis, and the RIPASA scores calculated in the preoperative period were compared to the histopathological examination results of the appendectomy specimens.<jats:italic> Results<\/jats:italic>. The patients consisted of 124 (51.2%) females and 118 (48.8%) males. The ages of the patients ranged from 15 to 81 years. The patients were divided into 3 groups based on their RIPASA scores as low-score (4-7), intermediate-score (7.5-11.5), and high-score (12 and over) groups. There were 20 (52.6%) catarrhal-stage appendicitis cases and 17 (44.7%) normal appendixes in the low-score group; there were 70 (83.3%) catarrhal-stage appendicitis cases, 9 (10.7%) suppurative-stage appendicitis cases, 4 (4.8%) gangrenous-stage appendicitis cases, and 1 (1.2%) perforated appendicitis case in the intermediate-score group. In the high-score group, there were 53 (44.2%) suppurative-stage appendicitis cases, 51 (42.5%) gangrenous-stage appendicitis cases, 11 (9.2%) perforated appendicitis cases, and 5 (4.2%) catarrhal-stage appendicitis cases. A strong positive correlation was found between the RIPASA scores of the patients and the pathological stage of appendicitis (r=0.889; p&lt;0.001).<jats:italic> Conclusion<\/jats:italic>. The RIPASA scoring system can make a correct and prompt diagnosis of acute appendicitis including its possible pathological stage without any need for a computed tomography.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1155\/2019\/8140839","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,1]],"date-time":"2019-08-01T19:31:50Z","timestamp":1564687910000},"page":"1-5","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Can RIPASA Scoring System Predict the Pathological Stage of Acute Appendicitis?"],"prefix":"10.1155","volume":"2019","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5132-8266","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Banu","family":"Karapolat","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of General Surgery, Kanuni Training and Research Hospital, Trabzon, Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","reference":[{"key":"1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3393\/ac.2017.33.6.227"},{"issue":"3","key":"2","first-page":"220","volume":"51","year":"2010","journal-title":"Singapore Medical Journal"},{"issue":"5","key":"3","first-page":"e1901","volume":"45","year":"2018","journal-title":"Revista do Col\u00e9gio Brasileiro de Cirurgi\u00f5es"},{"key":"4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1590\/0100-69912014005007"},{"key":"5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.4103\/0975-2870.169914"},{"issue":"1","key":"6","first-page":"17","volume":"6","year":"2010","journal-title":"Brunei International Medical Journal"},{"key":"7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1155\/2016\/9739385"},{"issue":"5","key":"8","first-page":"340","volume":"52","year":"2011","journal-title":"Singapore Medical Journal"},{"key":"9","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s00384-016-2713-4"},{"key":"10","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.5847\/wjem.j.1920-8642.2017.04.005"}],"container-title":["Emergency Medicine International"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"http:\/\/downloads.hindawi.com\/journals\/emi\/2019\/8140839.pdf","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"http:\/\/downloads.hindawi.com\/journals\/emi\/2019\/8140839.xml","content-type":"application\/xml","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"http:\/\/downloads.hindawi.com\/journals\/emi\/2019\/8140839.pdf","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,1]],"date-time":"2019-08-01T19:31:54Z","timestamp":1564687914000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.hindawi.com\/journals\/emi\/2019\/8140839\/"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,1]]},"references-count":10,"alternative-id":["8140839","8140839"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1155\/2019\/8140839","relation":{},"ISSN":["2090-2840","2090-2859"],"issn-type":[{"value":"2090-2840","type":"print"},{"value":"2090-2859","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,1]]}}}