Nadia Nazir, Irum Amir, Khalid Rehman Yousaf.
Diagnostic accuracy of u/s to diagnose intussusception in children taking surgical findings as gold standard.
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;13(4):966-7.

Aim : To diagnose the accuracy of ultrasound to diagnose intussusception in paedriatic patients keeping the surgical finding as gold standard. Study Design : Cross sectional study. Setting : New Radiology Department in Services Hospital Lahore. Duration: 6 months 11/3/2015 to 11/9/2015 . Methodology : Patients of both sex and age below 12 years presenting with colicky abdominal pain, vomiting and current jelly stools were included. The subjects were selected from Radiology department, Services hospital Lahore. The patients fulfilling the inclusion criteria were included in the study after informed consent. Results : Frequency of intussusception on ultrasound was 186(82.7%) and on surgery was 187(83.1%). The overall sensitivity of ultrasound was 99%, Specificity: 100 %, Positive Predictive value: 100 %, Negative Predictive value 9 7% and diagnostic accuracy was 9 9%. Conclusion : Ultrasound is good, non invasive modality for diagnosis of intussusception with high diagnostic accuracy.

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