Ultrasound diagnosis of pneumoperitoneum: a case report
Keywords:
diagnostic imaging, abdomen, free air, perforationAbstract
Pneumoperitoneum, or free air in the abdominal cavity, has traditionally been a diagnosis made with conventional radiographs in the acute abdomen series.Computed tomography (CT) is a sensitive diagnostic tool in detecting free air, but remains an expensive examination rendering it unfavourable. Since the early 1980s it has emerged that ultrasound can be diagnostic in cases of pneumoperitoneum.
This however is by and large a little known fact and rarely trusted explicitly. This is a single case report in which ultrasound proved to be useful in the detection of intra-abdominal air.
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