The Acute Abdomen Victoria L. Franklin, MD

The Acute Abdomen

Victoria L. Franklin, MD



I’m going to talk to you today about radiology in the evaluation of patients who present to the Emergency Room with an acute abdomen. We’re going to concentrate primarily on plain film evaluation. When I am talking about an acute abdomen, I’m talking to you about those patients that you examine and they have acute tenderness. They have rebound tenderness. I’m going to recommend to you that the place to start with these patients is with a plain film series of the abdomen and we’ll talk about some of the films. Ultrasound probably has a role in selected instances and CT scanning is beginning to have a bigger role in the evaluation of patients with an acute abdomen but, unfortunately, those are not always available 24 hours a day at every hospital. Plain films of the abdomen are the place to start in evaluating a patient with an acute abdomen.


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اسم المستخدم: 1929
كلمة السر:1929