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Acta Biomedica Scientia

Volume 4, Issue 3, 2017
Mcmed International
Acta Biomedica Scientia
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2348 - 215X (Print), 2348 - 2168 (Online)
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bi-annual
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Abstract
Title
COMPARISON OF CT AND SONOGRAPHY IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF APPENDICITIS
Author
Dr.B.Jayalakshmi and Dr.Kranthi Kumar Maruthu
Email
bjayardy@gmail.com
keyword
CT scan, sonography, appendicitis, Carcinoid/adenocarcinoma, ultrasonography.
Abstract
For detecting acute appendicitis since decades, sonography and CT have been considered to be the two accurate tools. In previous studies, the sensitivities of CT has been reported to be 70-100 and the 91-99%. Coming to the sensitivities of sonography, it was reported as 75-90% and 86-100% in previous researches. In India, there are about 250,000 cases newly reported every year. The common surgical emergency of abdomen is acute appendicitis all over the world. In female the life time risk of appendicitis is approximately 6.7%. In males the lifetime risk of appendicitis was found to be 8.6%. Besides all these diagnosing techniques and advances in life sciences, the diagnoses of appendicitis is always a challenge for the health care professionals, especially in case of acute appendicitis. In pediatrics with equivocal clinical studies have been carried out more frequently. By preferring imaging radiology in university hospitals and other community or tertiary care hospital most of the sonography or CT scan was carried out. From the study it was diagnosed as 148(74%) acute appendicitis, 11(5.5%) general appendicitis, 3(1.5%) perforated appendicitis, 1(0.5%) subacute appendicitis, 1(0.5%) chronic appendicitis, 2(1%) periappendicitis, 2(1%) carcinoid/adenocarcinoma and other cases were 3(1.5%). It can be concluded that CT scan is the most accurate tool for diagnosing appendicitis in comparison with sonography
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