Luz Elena Guerrero MD, Presenter: Nothing to Disclose

Patricia Herrera Quilez MEd, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Lina K. Rojas MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Ivan Carrion MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Sandra Milena Cordoba Rovira MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Tomas Sempere, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

1. Academic review of the different conditions that clinically are presented as acute abdomen, including postoperative complications. 2. Exposure of different clinical-radiological cases, diagnosed in our hospital during the last year and correlating them with surgical findings. 3. Recognize MDCT imaging appearance of various acute abdominal disease processes that are encountered in the emergency department. 4. To learn the usefulness of 2D MPR reconstructions and 3D volume rendering in the differential diagnosis of acute abdomen.

Reviewed retrospectively 80 cases of patients with acute abdomen, including those that come spontaneously to the emergency room, and patients admitted to our hospital for other reasons, during the last year. All of them required urgent surgical intervention with a prior execution of an abdominal MDCT. It was correlated the radiological findings with the surgical findings. Revising the clinical and radiological signs characteristics of each pathology : Mechanical bowel obstruction(incarceration,volvulus,intussusception,mesenteric vascular occlusion,adhesions,stenosis,bezoar,adhesive band), bowel perforation, postoperative common complications, acute cholecystitis, acute appendicitis, aortic aneurysm rupture and others.Summary and conclusions.

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Guerrero, L, Herrera Quilez, P, Rojas, L, Carrion, I, Cordoba Rovira, S, Sempere, T, The Utility of MDCT on the Diagnosis of Acute Abdomen.  Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2014/14001475.html