Appendicitis is the most common cause of acute abdominal pain requiring surgery. Approximately 250,000 appendectomies are performed annually in the United States. Sonography and computed tomography have both proven to be reliable imaging options for evaluating patients presenting with right lower quadrant pain and possible appendicitis. The authors report a case of acute appendicitis incidentally discovered during routine transvaginal sonography (TVS). Although TVS is not the standard imaging technique for evaluating the acute appendix, it is important for sonographers and sonologists to recognize the pathology when it is encountered and the value of the transvaginal approach.
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