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Abdominal radiography is not necessary in children with intussusception

Pediatric Surgery International, 2015
Children with intussusception require rapid and accurate diagnosis to enable timely intervention for satisfactory outcome. Ultrasonography is the recommended standard diagnostic modality; however, abdominal radiography (AR) is still used as an initial investigation.
Farhan, Tareen, Danielle, Mc Laughlin, Fiona, Cianci, Siobhan M, Hoare, Brian, Sweeney, Alan, Mortell, Prem, Puri   +6 more
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Rationalising abdominal radiography in the accident and emergency department

Clinical Radiology, 1980
A retrospective analysis is presented of 100 consecutive patients attending an accident department and referred for abdominal radiography. In general the reasons for requesting supine films appeared sound. Five per cent of referrals were for haematemesis which is not a valid reason for plain radiography.
G J, de Lacey, B K, Wignall, S, Bradbrooke, J, Reidy, S, Hussain, B, Cramer   +5 more
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Acute Nontraumatic Abdominal Pain in Adult Patients: Abdominal Radiography Compared with CT Evaluation

Radiology, 2002
To compare the diagnostic yield of abdominal radiography with that of computed tomography (CT) in adult patients presenting to the emergency department with nontraumatic abdominal pain.Records of 1,000 consecutive patients presenting to the emergency department with acute abdominal pain from April to June 1998 were retrospectively reviewed.
Sun Ho, Ahn, William W, Mayo-Smith, Brian L, Murphy, Steven E, Reinert, John J, Cronan   +4 more
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Patient-controlled abdominal compression method in radiography

2019
Aims and objectives: In radiography, optimized methods like compression should be used [1, 2]. The image quality improves with compression because soft tissue is displaced sideways. This reduces the radiation dose and scattered radiation is decreased [2].
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Indications for plain abdominal radiography in the emergency department

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1986
Despite the proliferation of new imaging methods, plain abdominal radiographs remain the first films ordered in a significant number of emergency department patients. Several small studies suggest that abdominal films are ordered unnecessarily. Over-ordering takes two forms: inappropriate indications and poor choice of the number and/or types of views ...
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Diabetes mellitus. I: Routine plain abdominal radiography.

East African medical journal, 1992
The plain abdominal radiographs of 43 consecutive diabetic patients were studied. Disordered bowel motility which was unrelated to the severity of the diabetes mellitus occurred in 76.7% while artheriosclerosis occurred in 65%. Only 7% (3 patients) had pancreatic calcification; of these, one was a complication of urinary schistosomiasis (Schistosoma ...
A D, Hamed, A, Akinsola
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Abdominal Radiography

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1983
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In defense of plain abdominal radiography

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1982
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RADIOGRAPHY OF ABDOMINAL ARTERIES.

The Lancet, 1931
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Pneumocolon: A Diagnostic Aid in Abdominal Radiography

Veterinary Radiology, 1978
Thomas G. Nyland, Norman Ackerman
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