BACKGROUND How precise and reliable is ultrasonography as a primary tool for injury assessment in blunt abdominal trauma? METHODS A systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted of prospective clinical trials of ultrasonography for blunt abdominal trauma. Publications were retrieved by structured searching among databases, review articles and major text books. Authors and experts in the ...

Lupus mesenteric enteritis is an uncommon condition in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients with acute abdominal pain. We describe a 28-year-old woman with a 3-day history of watery diarrhea and intermittent vomiting. Abdominal ultrasonography revealed thickening of the intestinal wall and edema with the lumen filled with fluid in this patient with nonspecific symptoms. These ultrasonogr...

AIM To compare the diagnostic accuracy of clinical examination, white blood cell and differential count, and C-reactive protein as routine tests for acute appendicitis with that of interleukin-6 (IL-6) and ultrasonography. METHODS Eighty-two children were admitted to the Department of Pediatric Surgery and Intensive Care, Ljubljana, Slovenia because of suspected acute appendicitis. Among them...

OBJECTIVE To assess the value of abdominal ultrasonography in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis and the influence of gender, physical constitution, experience of the radiologist and the time evolution of the disease on the results of diagnostic indices. METHODS We prospectively evaluated 156 patients with clinical diagnosis of acute appendicitis who underwent laparoscopic appendectomy and a...

We present a 65 year old female patient presented with acute onset of severe left sided abdominal pain associated tender intra-abdominal lump over the flank. An ultrasonography revealed an ectopic spleen in flank and CE-CT scan abdomen confirmed wandering torsion vascular pedicle at hilum. She underwent splenectomy. Wandering is uncommon clinical entity. Review literature was made on different ...

An arterial aneurysm is defined as a focal dilation of a blood vessel with respect to the original artery. The risk of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) increases dramatically in the presence of the following factors: age older than 60 years, smoking, hypertension and Caucasian ethnicity. The likelihood that an aneurysm will rupture is influenced by the aneurysm size, expansion rate, continued ...

BACKGROUND Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is widely used for cholelithiasis. Abdominal ultrasonography often precedes this operation and can prove diagnosis, as well as helps in showing possible complications during the perioperative period. AIM Evaluate the description of variables of gallbladder and bile ducts present in reports of preoperative abdominal ultrasonography in cholelithiasis comp...

* Sources of funding – none Chronic diseases of the liver, gall-bladder and bile ducts and pancreas are the most common disorders encountered in the routine practice of a general surgeon. Routine percutaneous ultrasonography is a commonly available imaging method of abdominal organs and is a significant tool in the accurate detection of the reported disorders. Despite high variability and numbe...