Correlation of radiological investigations with clinical findings in cases of abdominal mass in the paediatric age group

Abstract

Most of the cases of abdominal mass can be well evaluated clinically in terms of the diagnosis and organ of origin. Both radiological investigation and a good clinical examination have equal sensitivity. Radiological investigations are thus only adjuvant to a good clinical examination.

Accuracy of MRI in the Differential Diagnosis of Wilms Tumor

“…In a similar study conducted at Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Jawaid et al (17) predominance among such children with male to female ratio of 1.5:1. Our results also match with those of Indian studies where Gupta et al (18) (2018) and Mohan et al (19) (2017) observed comparable higher proportion of under 5 year age group and reported it to be 58.0% and 59.9% respectively while Khan et al (20) (2015) and Sharma et al (21) (2014) reported similar male predominance with male to female ratio of 1.9:1 and 2:1 respectively among such children. In a similar study involving Iranian children with adnominal mass, Zareifar et al (22) (2016) reported comparable mean age of 4.8±4.2 years with similar higher proportion of males (1.9:1) and under 5 years age group (62.4%).…”

Giant sixteen kilogram lymphangioma mesenteric cyst: An unusual presentation of a rare benign tumour

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