Diagnosis of appendicitis during pregnancy can be challenging because of atypical clinical presentations such as abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, which can also appear in normal pregnancy.

The incidence of appendicitis in pregnancy varies. Appendicitis rates have been quoted from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 300 with an average rate of 1 in 550 pregnancies. [5,6,7,8,9] Mourad et al. [9 ...