Color Doppler ultrasound, not CT, should be the first imaging examination for adult patients with suspected acute appendicitis, a new study emphasizes. Color Doppler ultrasound, not CT, should be the ...

We report the case of a 43 year old male who presented with sudden onset of severe abdominal pain. His symptoms were consistent with acute cholecystitis. He was unable to speak English and ...

Researchers at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore in New York have determined that the use of ultrasound as the first imaging option to detect appendicitis in children yields comparable results to ...

Imaging Widely Used in Presumed Pediatric Appendicitis During the transition to an ultrasound-first paradigm for imaging acute appendicitis in pediatric patients, there does not seem to be any ...

A new study published in the journal The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health reports that suspected appendicitis in children is not only among the most common pediatric conditions but often wrongly ...

Diagnosis of appendicitis in pregnancy is difficult. An enlarging uterus can alter the position of the appendix, which may even show up in the right upper quadrant. In addition, loss of abdominal-wall ...

OAK BROOK, Ill.-- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can help rule out acute appendicitis in pregnancy when ultrasound findings are inconclusive, according to a study in the March issue of Radiology.

Isabel Schimpff parted ways with her appendix in May, three days after she turned 10. On Monday she got to see ultrasound scans of the inflamed organ. She met pediatric radiologist Robert DeFlorio, ...

Have you ever treated a child with abdominal pain that you suspected might be caused by appendicitis? It’s tempting to go straight to a CT scan, but such scans expose children to ionizing radiation, ...

Introduction: Residual appendicitis involving the stump of the appendix has been well described in the literature in the past. Case report: We report the case of a 43 year old male with acute onset of ...