NCT00673374

Correlation of Location of Abdominal Tenderness With Acute CT Abnormalities in Emergency Department Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 102 (actual)
• Sponsor: Duke University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To determine the correlation between the region of abdominal tenderness determined by the examining physician and the location of acute pathology diagnosed on abdominal CT. We hypothesize that the acute pathology diagnosed by CT will lie within the region marked on the abdominal wall by the examining physician prior to CT.

Conditions

• Abdominal Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	radio-opaque adhesive skin markers	The examining physician will place a radio-opaque skin marker (Beekley Corporation, Ortho-SPOTS® Order Code 187; 6mm spherical markers) at the point of maximal tenderness to direct abdominal palpation indicated by the patient. Additional markers will be placed at the cephalad and caudad limits of the region of tenderness, defined as the point at which the patient no longer complains of direct tenderness to palpation.

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-05-01
• Primary completion: 2009-01-01
• Completion: 2009-01-01
• First posted: 2008-05-07
• Last updated: 2014-02-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States