Abnormal abdominal CT scan following cholecystectomy.

Abnormal abdominal CT scan following cholecystectomy.

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Contrast-Induced Nephropathy Following CT Scan and Its Associated Factors

Background and purpose: Contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) as a common complication of administration of contrast media (CM) is a major source of hospital morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of CIN after contrast-enhanced CT scan and identifying the related risk factors. Materials and methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out in 100 patients att...

Myocardial infarction, seizure and an abnormal head CT scan.

Non-operative Management Of Intra-abdominal Abscess Following Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has become the ‘gold standard’ for symptomatic gallstones. Although the overall complication rate after LC is less than the traditional open approach, intra-abdominal abscesses following LC are rarely encountered. Also, intra-operative stone spillage and dropping of the surgical clips do occur. An abscess secondary to a dropped surgical clip is an uncommon even...

CT following blunt abdominal trauma in children

Guidelines for imaging children who have suffered major blunt trauma have been produced by a sub-group of the British Society of Paediatric Radiologists (BSPR). These were developed after it was recognised that children are ‘not just small adults’ and have different injury patterns. This is due to differences in relative anatomical proportions (for example, small children have a relatively larg...