ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2019
Diagnostic Accuracy of Ultrasound in the Diagnosis of Small Bowel Obstruction.
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- Utilizing POCUS in the diagnosis of small bowel obstruction and the barriers to its implementation in resource-limited settings: a systematic review.Journal of ultrasound · 2026Pooled it
- Emergency Department Disposition and Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Biliary Disease: Propensity-Weighted Cohort Study.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2025Article
- Diagnostic Accuracy of Ultrasound by Emergency Physicians in Patients with Suspected Small Bowel Obstruction (SBO): A Multi-center Study.Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2025Article
- Evaluation of point-of-care ultrasound use in the diagnostic approach for right upper quadrant abdominal pain management in the emergency department: a prospective study.Internal and emergency medicine · 2024Article
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- Diagnostic Performance of Ultrasonography for Identification of Small Bowel Obstruction; a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Archives of academic emergency medicine · 2024Review
- Imaging in Non-Traumatic Emergencies.Tomography (Ann Arbor, Mich.) · 2023Article
- The "Black Pattern", a Simplified Ultrasound Approach to Non-Traumatic Abdominal Emergencies.Tomography (Ann Arbor, Mich.) · 2022Article
- Diagnostic Accuracy of Ultrasonography by Emergency Medicine Resident in Detecting Intestinal Obstruction; a Pilot Study.Archives of academic emergency medicine · 2022Article
- Overview of point-of-care ultrasound in diagnosing intestinal obstruction.World journal of emergency medicine · 2022Article
- Auscultation of Bowel Sounds and Ultrasound of Peristalsis Are Neither Compartmentalized Nor Correlated.Cureus · 2021Article
- Ultrasound of Small Bowel Obstruction: A Pictorial Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- "Bulb-like" sign: Small bowel closed loop obstruction in incarcerated Spigelian hernia.Radiology case reports · 2021Article
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- Ultrasound Signs in the Diagnosis and Staging of Small Bowel Obstruction.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Guidance for clinical practice using emergency and point-of-care ultrasonography.Acute medicine & surgeryReview
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Abstract
introductionSmall bowel obstruction (SBO) is a common presentation to the Emergency Department (ED). This study aimed to analyze the accuracy of ultrasound (US) in diagnosing and staging SBO.
objectivesThe main object of this study was to analyze the accuracy of ultrasound in diagnosing and staging SBO compared to CT.
methodsRetrospectively, stable patients with an ultrasonographic diagnosis of SBO who underwent abdominal CT immediately after US and before receiving naso-intestinal decompression, were included. US criteria for the diagnosis of SBO were related to morphological and functional findings. US diagnosis of obstruction was made if fluid-filled dilated small bowel loops were detected, peristalsis was abnormal and parietal abnormalities were present. Morphologic and functional sonographic findings were assigned to three categories: simple SBO, compensated SBO and decompensated SBO. US findings were compared with the results of CT examinations: Morphologic CT findings (divided into loop, vascular, mesenteric and peritoneal signs) allowed the classification of SBO in simple, decompensated and complicated.
resultsUS diagnostic accuracy rates in relation to CT results were calculated: ultrasound compared to CT imaging, had a sensitivity of 92.31% (95% CI, 74.87% to 99.05%) and a specificity of 94.12% (95% CI, 71.31% to 99.85%) in the diagnosis of SBO.
conclusionsThis study, similarly to the existing literature, suggests that ultrasound is highly accurate in the diagnosis of SBO, and that the most valuable sonographic signs are the presence of dilated bowel loops ad abnormal peristalsis.
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