Table 2.

Surgical findings and histological results

	Group 1: common population (n = 1,038)	Group 2: pregnant patients (n = 16)	p value
Normal appendix	4 (0.4%)	1 (6.25%)	0.074
Catarrhal inflammation	169 (16.2%)	6 (37.5%)	0.036
Phlegmonous inflammation	544 (52.4%)	6 (37.5%)	0.2
Gangrenous inflammation	202 (19.5%)	2 (12.5%)	0.8
Gangrenous with perforation	119 (11.5%)	1 (6.25%)	>0.9
Complicated appendicitisa	321 (31.0%)	3 (18.75%)	0.4
Normal appendix	55.0 (5.3%)	4.0 (25.0%)	0.010
Acute appendicitis	917.0 (88.3%)	10.0 (62.5%)	0.008
Chronic appendicitis	43.0 (4.1%)	1.0 (6.25%)	0.5
Appendiceal tumor	23.0 (2.2%)	1.0 (6.25%)	0.3

^aGangrenous inflammation and perforations.