1Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Subharti Medical College Meerut, Swami Vivekananda Subharti University, Meerut, UP
2Assistant Professor, (Medical Sociology), Swami Vivekananda Subharti University, Meerut, UP
3Assistant Professor, Biostatistics, Subharti Medical College Meerut, Swami Vivekananda Subharti University, Meerut, UP
4Professor, Community Medicine, Subharti Medical College Meerut, Swami Vivekananda Subharti University, Meerut, UP
*Corresponding author: Dr. Sartaj Ahmad Telephone: 09897093882, Email: sartajsaleem@gmail.com
Online published on 15 February, 2017.
Abdomen pain is a medical emergency, in which there is sudden and severe pain in abdomen of recent onset with accompanying signs and symptoms that focus on an abdominal involvement. It can represent a wide spectrum of conditions, ranging from a benign and self-limiting disease to a surgical emergency. The integrated imaging, and in particular the use of ultrasonography has revolutionized the clinical approach to this condition, simplifying the diagnosis but burdening the radiologists with the problems related to the clinical management. A paediatric abdominal ultrasound is an examination of the abdomen with an ultrasound machine that uses sound waves to form images of different organs within the child's body. Abdominal ultrasound studies are most commonly performed to investigate the causes of abdominal pain or whether there is a mass of tissue or “lump”.
(1)To study the clinical profile of pain abdomen in children of age group 2–10 years (2) To establish the etiology of pain abdomen with the aid of ultrasonography (3) To study correlation of clinical and ultrasonographic findings
A hospital based cross sectional study.
This article shows the use of ultrasound in the evaluation of the abdominal pain in the pediatric patients. Ultrasound appearance of pathologic processes that result in abdominal pain in the pediatric patient and to understand the use and limitations of abdominal ultrasound in the acute pediatric abdomen.
The causes of the abdominal pain in children vary depending on the ages of the children. Ultrasound is a noninvasive modality and is useful for assessing these patients. Ultrasonography is quite sensitive for diagnosing. But utility of ultrasonography was found to be limited for diagnosing cases of acute gastroenteritis and urinary tract infection as a cause of abdominal pain.
Abdominal Pain, Clinical examination, Ultrasound, Diagnosis
