Skip to main content
Search
Explore journals
Get published
About BMC
My account
Search all BMC articles
Search
World Journal of Emergency Surgery
Home
About
Articles
Submission Guidelines
Table 3 Comparison of imaging studies for confirmation and site of perforation
From:
2017 WSES guidelines on colon and rectal cancer emergencies: obstruction and perforation
Confirmation of perforation
Site of perforation
Sensitivity
Specificity
Sensitivity
Specificity
Abdominal plain X-ray
53% [
30
]
53% [
30
]
NS
NS
Abdominal US
92% [
30
]
53% [
30
]
NS
NS
Colonic enema
NS
NS
NS
NS
CT scan
95% [
29
]
90% [
29
]
NS
90% [
29
]
Back to article page