RESUMO
To find out the benefits of invagination of stump during appendicetomy. Acute appendicitis is the most common abdominal emergency requiring emergency surgery. A prospective randomized clinical trail. From June 2003 - May 2005. Mayo Hospital and Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore. A prospective randomized study including 200 patients undergoing appendicectomy was carried out to see any advantage of invagination of appendicular stump. A total of 200 operated cases of appendicitis divided in two groups of 100 cases each. In Group, a there were 59 males and to 2nd and 3rd decade. I Group there were 63 males and females. The youngest patient was 5 year old while the eldest was 57 year old. Maximum patients belonged to 2nd and 3rd decade. It was that there was no added benefit of invagination of appendicular stump, rather it took more operative time, and times, it was hazardous to do so