Min-Jeong Kim, Presenter: Nothing to Disclose

Hong-Il Ha MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Kwanseop Lee, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Seung-Gu Yeo MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

1. To discuss the various US techniques in the evaluation of patients with acute right lower quadrant pain. 2. To identify key sonographic findings of normal appendix and acute appendicitis. 3. To list the other causes of right lower quadrant pain beyond appendicitis and describe their US findings.

1. US Techniques 2. Normal appendix and Acute appendicitis 1) US anatomy of appendix 2) Appendicitis or Not: Key US findings 3) Pitfalls of acute appendicitis: appendiceal diverticulitis, early appendicitis, distal appendicitis, retrocecal appendicitis, perforated appendicitis, spontaneously resolving appendicitis 3. Other causes of RLQ pain 1) Right colonic diverticulitis 2) Ileal diverticulitis 3) Infectious enterocolitis 4) Inflammatory bowel disease 5) Primary epiploic appendagitis 6) Omental infarction 7) Mesenteric lymphadenitis 8) Malignancy 9) Miscellaneous: Urologic and gynecologic disease

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Kim, M, Ha, H, Lee, K, Yeo, S, Acute Right Lower Quadrant Pain: Differential Diagnoses on Ultrasonography.  Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2014/14013829.html