… Besides confirming the diagnosis acute cholecystitis, the … Few studies compare MR and US
in diagnosing acute cholecystitis (… US in patients with clinically suspected acute cholecystitis. …

… clinically suspected acute acalculous cholecystitis were evaluated retrospectively. Sonography
and … Sonography was as sensitive as hepatobiliary scintigraphy and was more specific in …

… findings are more strongly associated with acute cholecystitis than others: a positive Murphy’…
acute calculous cholecystitis and its complications [25]. When compared to ultrasonography, …

… improve the diagnosis and treatment of patients with acute cholecystitis (AC) at our facility.
Our role in this project was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracies of ultrasound (US) and CT. …

… confirmed the presence of acute cholecystitis in all patients in this group. Other authors
have reported a much higher US sensitivity in diagnosing AC; the difference in the reported …

… We compared categorical results using a Fisher exact test and continuous variables using
a 2-tailed Student t test or the Wilcoxon signed rank test, as appropriate. Statistics were …

… Down RHL, Goldin A, Arnold J, et al: Comparison of … and ultrasonography in the diagnosis
of acute cholecystitis. … ultrasonography in acute cholecystitis. Am J Surg 141: 446, 1981. …

… In comparing the performances of radiology to ED US, our reviewed studies found disparate
… testing, and ultrasound impact on making the diagnosis of acute cholecystitis. We found that …

… and radiology ultrasonography was also compared individually to our criterion standard (Table
4). No individual secondary sonographic finding was sufficiently sensitive to exclude …

… cholescintigraphy as an adjunct to emergency ultrasound of the gallbladder. The … ultrasound
in the evaluation of Emergency Department (ED) patients with suspected acute cholecystitis. …