Table 7.
Imaging
| Question | Answer | Total (no. 403) | No. of colectomies | Years of experience | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0–50 (no. 302) | > 50 (no. 101) | p | ≤ 5 (no. 254) | > 5 (no. 149) | p | ||||||||
| No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | ||||
| Question 18 | US by expert radiologist | 141 | 35.0 | 105 | 34.8 | 36 | 35.6 | 0.933 | 90 | 35.4 | 51 | 34.2 | 0.594 |
| Clinical exam | 26 | 6.5 | 19 | 6.3 | 7 | 6.9 | 14 | 5.5 | 12 | 8.1 | |||
| CT scan | 235 | 58.3 | 178 | 58.9 | 57 | 56.4 | 150 | 59.1 | 85 | 57.0 | |||
| Other | 1 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.7 | |||
Question 18 = 40-year-old woman with typical symptoms of the umpteenth episode of mild AD (apyretic, elective pain with localized rebound tenderness, slight alteration of inflammation indices). Which test is indicated for diagnostic confirmation?
US ultrasounds