title: [Study of intestinal motility in the child with acute appendicitis using phonoenterography].
abstract: Our experience in using the phonoenterographic procedure in measuring the sounds produced by the intestinal motility in 75 patients is reported: 30 underwent surgery, won acute appendicitis, 20 appendicular peritonitis and 25 underwent surgery without abdominal pathology. We performed in all patients a temporary record of 3 minutes of duration, one spectrogram and one sonogram before the surgery and after surgery in the following 6, 12 and 24 hours. We obtained the number of sounds recorded by our informatic program, and also its intensity measure in dB and frequency in Hz. The procedure we have used can distinguished the characteristics of the intestinal sound of each patient and allow to show a qualitative and quantitative activity, different in the three group of patients. The number of sounds is bigger in the patients with non digestive abdominal pathology and smaller in patients with peritonitis. In general, the lesser number of sounds the lesser intensity and a more grave tones.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Universitario Materno-Infantil Infanta Cristina, Unex, Badajoz.
authors.forename: J I
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Santamaría
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Vega
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Valverde
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Blesa
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001064:Appendicitis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005769:Gastrointestinal Motility / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D013016:Sound
vernacular_title: Estudio de la motilidad intestinal en el niño con apendicitis aguda mediante fonoenterografía.