Sonographic findings in patients with upper abdominal pain in Nnewi community, Anambra state, Nigeria.
Journal Title: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CURRENT RESEARCH IN MEDICAL SCIENCES - Year 2017, Vol 3, Issue 6
Abstract
Abdominal ultrasound is a rapid and non-invasive method of examination of the abdomen. Abdominal ultrasound is an imaging procedure used to examine the internal organs of the abdomen including the liver, gallbladder, spleen pancreas and kidney. The blood vessels that connect to some of these organs can also be looked at using ultrasound .To evaluate the common ultrasound findings in patients with upper abdominal pain and to correlate the ultrasound findings in patients with upper abdominal pain with age and gender. The data was collected from existing reports in the retrieved files. The following data were collected from the patient’s reports; the patient’s sex, the patient’s age and the ultrasound report/diagnoses. A total of 392 patients that were scanned for upper abdominal pain from January, 2013 to January, 2014 were studied. The sonographic reports showed that fatty liver was the highest sonographic findings in patients with upper abdominal pain with a total number of 129 (33.0%), followed by splenomegaly 45(11.4%), hydronephrosis 32(8.2%), nephrolithiasis 26(6.5%), cholelithiasis 24(6.1%). It was also found that 56-60 years age group was mostly affected with upper abdominal pain and 0-5 years of age group was the least affected. Based on this study, the incidence of upper abdominal pain was greater in female than in male. Also the liver organ showed to be most affected with the pancreas being the least affected.
Authors and Affiliations
*Ugwuanyi, Daniel1 , Chiegwu, H. U. 1 , Eze,J. C. 1 , Eze,C. U. 2 Ogbu,S. 2 and Okeji, M. 2
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