Open AccessEVALUATION OF ACUTE APPENDICITIS USING ULTRASOUND
Author(s) -
Abdullah Hamdan,
Nasraldeen Alnaeem M. Alkhidir,
Abdelmoneim Saeed
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of advanced research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2320-5407
DOI - 10.21474/ijar01/12449
Subject(s) - medicine , appendicitis , acute appendicitis , ultrasound , appendix , radiology , ultrasonography , acute abdomen , clinical diagnosis , predictive value , abdomen , diagnostic accuracy , surgery , pediatrics , paleontology , biology
The diagnosis of acute appendicitis is mainly clinical and to confirm the clinical diagnosis ultrasonography (USG) of the abdomen is being used to help in diagnosis of the disease. To find out the role of USG in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis in clinically equivocal cases and to correlate USG findings with histopathological reports (HPR) of removed appendix.Total numbers of 100 patients were included in the study from 12March 2019 to 5 December 2019. Findings on ultrasound were finally compared with histopathological report of appendices removed on surgery. Those cases with alternate diagnosis were followed up and proved with other means of investigation. The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value and overall accuracy of ultrasound in diagnosis of acute appendicitis in our study were found to be 79 %, 84.20 %, 95.50%, 48.40% and 80% respectively.