We herein report a case of abdominal pregnancy managed in Yaounde (Cameroon). The 33 year old G5P2022 woman was referred to our setting for management of an abdominal pregnancy of 34 weeks diagnosed during the first routine obstetrical ultrasonography done two days earlier. This ultrasonography revealed a live foetus within intestinal loops with a severe oligoamnios. After two days of lung matu...

With recent technical advances, increasing use of sonography in the initial evaluation of patients with abdominal disease may allow the detection of unexpected tumor within the abdominal cavity. Easiness of sonographic detection of bowel pathology, purposely or unexpectedly, warrants the inclusion of bowel loops during ultrasound examination when a patient complains of symptoms indicating disea...

BACKGROUND Since January 1, 2007, Medicare has covered abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) screening for new male enrollees with a history of smoking under the Screening Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Very Efficiently (SAAAVE) Act. We examined the association between this program and abdominal ultrasonography for AAA screening, elective AAA repair, hospitalization for AAA rupture, and all-cause mortali...

introduction: focused assessment with sonography for trauma (fast) is a highly effective first screening tool for initial classification of abdominal trauma patients. the present study was designed to evaluate the outcome of patients with blunt abdominal trauma and positive fast findings. methods: the present prospective cross-sectional study was done on patients over 7 years old with normal ab...

 Abstract Background: Misdiagnosis of the acute appendicitis may increase the rate of negative appendectomies, which involve a huge waste of resources and are sometimes associated with severe complications. Furthermore, false negative result of ultrasonography (US) could lead to perforation of appendix. Since ultrasonography is still the most common imaging technique used in Iranian appendiciti...

Ana M. Ferreira, MD Ana Vaz, MD Morgado Viana, MD Paulo Gil-Agostinho, MD Filipe Caseiro-Alves, PhD History A 57-year-old man presented with a 3-month history of abdominal pain. Physical examination revealed a large firm palpable mass in the epigastric region. There was no history of alcoholism, trauma, or previous pancreatitis. Laboratory findings were unremarkable. The patient underwent abdom...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES There is an increasing incidence of abdominal tuberculosis with the advent of HIV infection. This study was aimed at determining the pattern of presentation of abdominal tuberculosis on ultrasonography (USG) in HIV positive patients. METHODS This retrospective study was carried at the ART Centre, Sir Sunderlal Hospital, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, between March...

We describe a 38 year-old woman with polycythemia vera who presented with fulminant hepatic failure due to acute Budd-Chiari syndrome. She had a history of abdominal pain and distention for 4 days. Laboratory and clinical findings showed fulminant hepatic failure due to acute Budd-Chiari syndrome. Diagnosis was confirmed with abdominal ultrasonography and doppler ultrasonography showing ascites...

A 24-day old female Nigerian neonate presented with protracted vomiting, fever and dehydration but without palpable abdominal tumour or visible gastric peristalsis. There was no derangement of serum electrolytes. The initial working diagnosis was Late-Onset Sepsis but abdominal ultrasonography showed features consistent with the diagnosis of IHPS. This case report highlights the atypical presen...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of gallbladder stone in functional dyspepsia (FD) by abdominal ultrasonography and to determine the factors associated with this frequency in Guilan province. A total of 195 subjects who referred to outpatient clinic of Razi Hospital, a tertiary referral center (Guilan, Iran) to evaluate FD were included in this study. They were interviewed by...