Question 183 · LEK · Diagnostics

Nowadays the classic X-ray of the abdomen is still useful in the diagnostics of the following acute diseases of the abdomen:

1) perforation of the gastrointestinal tract;
2) bleeding into the peritoneal cavity;
3) ileus;
4) acute appendicitis;
5) torsion and perforation of the ovarian cyst.
The correct answer is:
  1. A. 1,3.
  2. B. 1,4,5.
  3. C. 1,3,5.
  4. D. 1,2,3,4.
  5. E. all the above.
Hint

Ask which conditions produce visible free gas or air-fluid patterns on a plain abdominal film.

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