Images in Emergency
Vol. 4 No. 3 (2008)
https://doi.org/10.4081/ecj.2008.3.36

Indications and limits of traditional radiology in acute abdomen

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Received: 17 February 2013
Accepted: 17 February 2013
Published: 18 June 2008
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Massimo Valentino
lucia.zoppi@pagepress.org
UO Radiologia Dipartimento Emergenza/Urgenza, Chirurgia Generale e dei Trapianti, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Policlinico Sant’Orsola-Malpighi, .
Francesco Monteduro
UO Radiologia Dipartimento Emergenza/Urgenza, Chirurgia Generale e dei Trapianti, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Policlinico Sant’Orsola-Malpighi, .
Pietro Pavlica
UO Radiologia Dipartimento Emergenza/Urgenza, Chirurgia Generale e dei Trapianti, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Policlinico Sant’Orsola-Malpighi, .
Libero Barozzi
UO Radiologia Dipartimento Emergenza/Urgenza, Chirurgia Generale e dei Trapianti, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Policlinico Sant’Orsola-Malpighi, .
In the last 20 years the increasing use of Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance and Ultrasonography has decreased the role of conventional radiology in the assessment of acute abdominal diseases. Nevertheless, in clinical practice, serial plain abdominal film remains the first diagnostic procedure, providing important diagnostic information, extremely useful in the emergency setting, and still of value if correctly performed and carefully interpreted. In this paper the current fields of application of serial abdominal plain film are presented, starting from a correct technique of performance and some basic knowledge of its interpretation.

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Massimo Valentino, UO Radiologia Dipartimento Emergenza/Urgenza, Chirurgia Generale e dei Trapianti, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Policlinico Sant’Orsola-Malpighi
Francesco Monteduro, UO Radiologia Dipartimento Emergenza/Urgenza, Chirurgia Generale e dei Trapianti, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Policlinico Sant’Orsola-Malpighi
Pietro Pavlica, UO Radiologia Dipartimento Emergenza/Urgenza, Chirurgia Generale e dei Trapianti, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Policlinico Sant’Orsola-Malpighi
Libero Barozzi, UO Radiologia Dipartimento Emergenza/Urgenza, Chirurgia Generale e dei Trapianti, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Policlinico Sant’Orsola-Malpighi

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Indications and limits of traditional radiology in acute abdomen. (2008). Emergency Care Journal, 4(3), 36-42. https://doi.org/10.4081/ecj.2008.3.36