Intestinal perforation by a foreign body: Diagnostic usefulness of ultrasonography

✍ Scribed by Luigi Matricardi; Roberta Lovati

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 373 KB
• Volume: 20
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0091-2751
• DOI: 10.1002/jcu.1870200306

✦ Synopsis

Sonography is being more frequently requested as the first modality for the evaluation of abdominal pathology, in many cases allowing a correct diagnosis to be reached without further assessment.

We report 1 case in which the sonographic image alone enabled early identification of the origin of an acute abdominal problem caused by organ perforation with no informative history.