Current trends in imaging evaluation of acute cholecystitis
β Scribed by Mohammad Alobaidi; Rahul Gupta; SyedZ. Jafri; DarleneM. Fink-Bennet
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 157 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1070-3004
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ACUTE cholecystitis remains a common emergency in spite of an increasing volume of elective surgery for the treatment of gall-stones. In 1966 acute cholecystitis was the second commonest emergency admitted to the North Middlesex Hospital, the first being acute appendicitis with 210 cases, then acute
## Abstract The sonographic Murphy sign, the presence of maximal tenderness elicited over a sonographically localized gallbladder, has been considered useful in the evaluation of patients with suspected acute cholecystitis. We prospectively evaluated this sign in 427 consecutive patients referred f