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- Title
Diagnostic Accuracy Of Abdominal Ultrasound In Children With Suspected Intussusception Keeping Surgical Findings As Gold Standard.
- Authors
Ashraf, Saba; Tazeen, Anjum; Nasreen, Maryam; Yousaf Farooq, Syed Muhammad; Iqbal, Muhammad Junaid; Kamran, Muhammad
- Abstract
Background/aim: To evaluate diagnostic accuracy of abdominal ultrasound in children with suspected intussusception keeping surgical findings as gold standard. Materials and methods: The cross-sectional analytical study was done to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of abdominal ultrasound in 54 children with complete medical record who visited Radiology department Mukhtar A. Sheikh Hospital, Multan between September 2021 to May 2022. Those children who had features suggestive of intussusception were included in this study. The sensitivity, specificity, negative and positive predictive value of ultrasound were calculated. Results: Sonographically, 41(75.9%) were diagnosed as having intussusception and 13(4.1%) were not having the disease. From the total of 54 patients 49(90.7%) were having intussusception on surgery and in 5(9.3%) it was not present. So, the sensitivity and specificity of ultrasound were 81.6% and 80% respectively, Negative and positive predictive values were 30.8% and 97.6% respectively. Diagnostic accuracy of ultrasound was 81.5%.Conclusion: It is concluded that ultrasonography is sensitive and reliable for identifying intussusception due to high values of specificity, sensitivity, negative and positive predictive values.
- Publication
Journal of Pharmaceutical Negative Results, 2022, Vol 13, p7080
- ISSN
0976-9234
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.47750/pnr.2022.13.S07.855