Ultrasonography for acute appendicitis - the way it looks today 30 years of established ultrasonography for appendicitis - a pictorial essay concerning practice, patterns, pitfalls and potentials ocr

摘要

Despite sophisticated physical examination and laboratory support, diagnosis of acute appendicitis remained challenging in clinical practice with a negative appendectomy rate of 15 - 30 %. As a remarkable clue and as early as 1986, ultrasonography (US) has been proven a reliable diagnostic method that is also explicitly helpful in difficult cases with atypical presentation and enables to rule out many differential diagnoses.