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The Role Of Computed Tomography For Identifying Mechanical Bowel Obstruction In A Pakistani Population, Omair Shakil, Syed Nabeel Zafar, Ziaur Rehman, Sarah Saleem, Rehmatullah Khan, Khawaja Muhammad Inam Pal

Section of General Surgery

Objective: To retrospectively review our experience of CT scan in cases with a final diagnosis of surgically confirmed mechanical bowel obstruction.
Methods: It is a retrospective analytical study, done from 2003 to 2008. All adult patients having undergone laparotomy in addition to a preoperative abdominal CT scan over a 5 year period were identified through the medical records and their case notes reviewed. Taking surgery to be the gold standard for diagnosing mechanical bowel obstruction, we compared results of the CT with operative findings to determine the sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values of CT scans. The data was …