Diagnosis of Acute Lower Abdominal Pain by Ultrasonography

Abstract

Currently, ultrasonography (US) has an important role in diagnosis of acute lower abdominal pain. Because of ability to differentiate gynecologic condition from surgical condition and lack of ionizing radiation to the patient, US is an appropriate tool for evaluating children, young female and pregnancy. Moreover, US is the modality of choice for evaluation of gynecologic condition. However, some diseases may have resemble ultrasonographic findings so that combination of clinical evaluation and laboratory testing should be evaluated together with the imaging findings for the accurate diagnosis.

Key words : acute lower abdominal pain, ultrasonography