CLINICAL RADIOLOGY OF ACUTE ABDOMINAL DISORDERS

Radiology for Practitioners Emergency Abdominal Radiology: the Acute Abdomen

Based on studies of approximately 30,000 patients, de Dombal [2] noted that in one third of these cases, cause was never established hence so-called unspecified abdominal pain. In those patients in whom a diagnosis became evident, 28% had appendicitis, 9.7% acute cholocystitis, 4.1% small bowel obstruction, 4% acute gynecologic disease, 2.9% acute pancreatitis, 2.9% renal colic, 2.5% perforated...

Abdominal Calcifications — Symptoms and Radiology

What’s up in abdominal radiology?

The advent of multi-detector array CT (MDCT) has turned many things in abdominal radiology upside down. MDCT is a technique with great possibilities for several specific applications in the abdomen. For example, the results of many well-performed clinical studies on MDCT colonography for polyp detection were presented at the ECR in Vienna and at the joint meeting of the ESGAR and SGR in Orlando...

Abdominal Calcifications — Symptoms and Radiology

Ultrasonography in the diagnosis of acute abdominal disorders.

The possibility of the rapid implementation of real-time imaging and small requirements concerning the positioning and preparation of the patient render the ultrasound examination an increasingly performed method in case of patients diagnosed during emergency service. The surgeon performing the examination obtains immediate information supplementing the physical examination and medical history,...