Table 3.

Patients with an alternate diagnosis

Diagnosis	After follow-up	At surgery
	(n = 172)	(n = 48)
Urinary tract infection	37
Gastroenteritis	25
Pelvic inflammatory disease/abscess	17	31
Constipation	13
Ulcerative colitis/Crohn’s disease	9	8
Diverticulitis	9	5
Gallbladder disease	8
Ovarian torsion	7
Upper urinary tract infection	7
Pancreatitis	5
Urolithiasis	4
Ileus	3
Ovulation bleeding	3
Lymphadenitis mesenterica	2
Colon tumor	2
Othera	21	4

^aIncluding dysmenorrhea, endometrial cyst, hepatocellulcar carcinoma, strangulated inguinal hernia, bowel ischemia, leiomyoma, multiple myeloma, necrotic uterus myoma, neurinoma, ovarian tumor, perianal abscess, corpus luteum cyst, pneumonia, prostate cancer, prostatitis, pseudomembranous colitis, urachal cyst, Meckel’s diverticulum, familial Mediterranean fever, omental infarction, and two patients with ectopic pregnancy