Chirurgia Bucharest
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Chirurgia Bucharest · Nov 2004
[Predictive value of diagnostic tests in polytrauma patients with abdominal and craniocerebral injuries].
In a study on 1024 polytrauma patients with craniocerebral injury, abdominal injury was present in 206 (20.11%) of them. In order to identify the intraabdominal organs injury, physical examination and specific diagnostic tests will be used. ⋯ The main indices, sensitivity, positive predictive value and accuracy were: for physical examination = 81.06%, 90.3%, 94.72%; for peritoneal lavage = 94.17%, 95.12%, 97.94%; for abdominal computed tomography = 98.44%, 97.65% and 99.25%. As one might expect the abdominal computed tomography is the most accurate method for the diagnosis of intraabdominal organs injuries.