Alternative Diagnoses to Stone Disease on Unenhanced CT to Investigate Acute Flank Pain

Overview

Journal Emerg Radiol

Specialties Emergency Medicine
Radiology

Date 2004 Jul 28

PMID 15278717

Citations 4

Authors

Mert Koroglu

John D Wendel

Randy D Ernst

Aytekin Oto

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Abstract

Acute flank pain is a common problem in emergency medicine. The most frequent cause is urolithiasis, but many other entities can cause the same clinical presentation. In many institutions unenhanced computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen is used in this setting. One of the major advantages of unenhanced CT is its ability to detect other pathologies causing flank pain. In this pictorial review, we present the CT findings of pathologies other than stone disease in patients with acute flank pain.

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