Title

Clinical assessment versus radiological investigations: Predictive accuracy for intra abdominal injury after blunt trauma

Authors

Dheeraj Kain¹, Vishal Patil^1,*, Nitin Patta², Rishi Kumar Athya², Richali Gujare³, Akansha Sahare⁴ & Sachin Parmar⁵

Affiliation

¹Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research centre Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India; ²Department of Surgical Oncology Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research centre Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India; ³Department of General Surgery, Shri Aurobindo Institute of medical sciences, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India; ⁴Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Mahaveer Medical College, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India; ⁵Department V.K.S. Government Medical College, Neemuch, Madhya Pradesh, India; *Corresponding author

Email

Dheeraj Kain - E-mail: kaindheeraj.555@gmail.com

Vishal Patil - E-mail: vishal18patil@gmail.com

Nitin Patta - E-mail: nitin.patta@gmail.com

Rishi Kumar Athya - E-mail: rishi.athya@gmail.com

Richali Gujare - E-mail: Rgujare2410@gmail.com

Akansha Sahare - E-mail: akanshasahare13@gmail.com

Sachin Parmar - E-mail: dr.sachinparmar@gmail.com

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received April 1, 2026; Revised April 30, 2026; Accepted April 30, 2026, Published April 30, 2026
 

Abstract

Blunt abdominal trauma remains a critical biomedical problem because clinical examination alone has limited sensitivity and negative predictive value for detecting intra-abdominal injuries in hemodynamically stable patients. Therefore, it is of interest to measure the clinical assessment of the diagnostic value of radiological versus clinical investigation with 100 patients with blunt abdominal trauma aged between 20-60 years in a tertiary care center in Rewa, India (April 2021- June 2022). Most prevalent was road traffic accidents (50%), followed by spleen (25%), clinical signs were pain (98%) and tenderness (90%), with the USG/X-ray (100%) and CECT (60%) leading to 70% conservative treatment with 94% good and 6% death. Thus, the radiological imaging proved to be a better diagnostic tool than clinical assessment of intra-abdominal injuries.

Keywords

Blunt abdominal trauma, clinical assessment, FAST ultrasound

Citation

Kain et al. Bioinformation 22(4): 2675-2679 (2026)

Edited by

P Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.