title: [Ultrasound for renal colic].
abstract: Nowadays the Spiral-CT-scan is stressed as the diagnostic "gold-standard" in the management of kidney-colics. Our findings suggest a very good sensitivity (98%) and specificity of diagnostic ultrasound (items:Hydrourether, RI > 0.05) in combination with hematuria in an ambulatory setting. Our data are referred to 70 ambulatory patients examined with the hypothetical diagnosis of kidney-colic in a general medicine surgery between 1996-2003. Diagnostic ultrasound is a reliable tool in the management of kidney-colics in ambulatory medicine. Its cost-saving character and the lack of X-rays-exposure should be taken into account in choosing the appropriate method in judging abdominal pains possibly related to kidney-colics.
authors.affiliation: Internistiche Praxis, Uster. Jan.Tuma@hin.ch
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tuma
authors.forename: H R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Schwarzenbach
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D000328:Adult; D003085:Colic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006417:Hematuria / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007669:Kidney Calculi / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010045:Outpatients; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D036542:Tomography, Spiral Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography