True about appendicular rupture is A/E

Answer is 'c' i.e. Early antibiotics prevent rupture * Early antibiotics don't prevent rupture, that's why immediate appendicectomy is the recommended treatment of acute appendicitis. Immediate appendicectomy is done to prevent the known complication of rupture. Appendicular rupture Occurs most frequently distal to the point of lumina! obstruction along the antimesenteric border of appendix. Rupture should be suspected in the presence of fever greater than 39degC (102degF) and a white blood cell count greater than I 8,000/rnm3.