Type:
Educational Exhibit
Keywords:
Abdomen, Emergency, CT, CT-Angiography, Contrast agent-intravenous, Structured reporting, Surgery, Acute
Authors:
G. Rotariu, I. Sava, D. H. Olaru, C. Lupascu-Ursulescu, D. Negru
DOI:
10.26044/ecr2023/C-17862
Background
A large proportion of Emergency Department (ED) admissions is attributed to non-traumatic acute abdominal pain. Since its cause must be discerned from a large series of conditions of varying severity, some requiring emergency surgery, its management places great stress on the clinician and radiologist.
CT has become almost indispensable in the diagnostic practice for NTAE, due to the best performances regarding sensitivity and specificity. [1]
We propose systemizing the differential diagnosis of NTAE in the form of the ABDOMINAL mnemonic, which also reunites the most critical entities that eventually would be rushed to the operating theater. [2]