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Accuracy of ultrasonography for the diagnosis of intussusception in infants in Vietnam
Pediatr Radiol (2007) 37:195–199 DOI 10.1007/s00247-006-0381-1 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Accuracy of ultrasonography for the diagnosis of intussusception in infants in Vietnam Frances A Justice & Margaret de Campo & Nguyen Thanh Liem & Tran Ngoc Son & Tran Phan Ninh & Julie E Bines Received: September 2006 / Revised: 15 November 2006 / Accepted: 16 November 2006 / Published online: 20 December 2006 # Springer-Verlag 2006 Abstract Background Intussusception (IS) is the most common cause of acute bowel obstruction in infants and young children Ultrasonography is being increasingly used as the primary investigation for the diagnosis of IS and to guide air or hydrostatic enema reduction However the accuracy of ultrasonography outside tertiary care settings in developed countries has not been assessed, particularly in Asia where the incidence of IS based on sonographic diagnosis has been reported as the highest in the world Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of ultrasonography in the diagnosis of acute IS in infants less than years of age in a paediatric hospital in Vietnam F A Justice : J E Bines Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia J E Bines (*) Department of Gastroenterology and Clinical Nutrition, Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, 3052 Victoria, Australia e-mail: julie.bines@rch.org.au J E Bines Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia M de Campo Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Perth, Australia N T Liem : T N Son Department of Surgery, National Hospital of Paediatrics, Hanoi, Vietnam T P Ninh Department of Imaging, National Hospital of Paediatrics, Hanoi, Vietnam Materials and methods A prospective study was conducted at the National Hospital for Paediatrics, Hanoi, Vietnam, over a 14-month period recruiting patients