Fabio Sandomenico, Luca Sanduzzi, Emilia La Verde, Emilio Vicenzo, Luigi Pirolo, Salvatore Maione, Francesca Rosa Setola, Valeria Macchia, Umberto Dello Iacono, Domenico Barbato, Gaia Peluso, Michele Santangelo, Arturo Brunetti
Acute cholecystitis stands out as one of the most common surgical pathologies that should always be considered in a right-upper abdominal pain emergency. For this, the importance of a correct diagnosis is well described. However, it has been demonstrated that the simple combination of clinical (pain, Murphy's sign) and laboratory (leukocytosis) parameters alone does not provide for ruling in or ruling out the diagnosis of this condition, unless accompanied by a radiological exam. For a long time, and still today, ultrasonography (US) is by far the first-to-proceed radiologic exam to perform, thanks to its rapidity and very high sensibility and specificity for the diagnosis of simple acute cholecystitis...
April 18, 2022: Tomography: a Journal for Imaging Research