Comparative Study between Spiral computed Tomography and Ultrasound in Detecting Urolithiasis

Abstract

The study was cross sectional study of spiral computed tomography and ultrasound in detecting urolithisiasis. This study was conducted in Khartoum state at (Alturky Diagnostic Center, Doctors clinic hospital and Al-Rebat university hospital), from December 2016 to January 2017. The problem of study was confusion in detecting stones in computed tomography and ultrasound. The study was aimed to demonstrate the diagnostic value of computed tomography in diagnosing presence and absence of urolithisiasis and identifying whether computed tomography and ultrasound can lead to accurate diagnosis of urolithiasis and compare between computed tomography and ultrasound in detection of urolithiasis. The data was collected from 100 patients classified and analyzed using SPSS and the study found that males are more affected by urolithiasis than females(71-20)respectively, so the age group between(49-60) are more exposed to urolithiasis and most of the cases have single stone (54 patients). The study concluded that the presence of urolithiasis in kidney is detected by both modalities in higher frequency than singular modality and the presence of urolithiasis in bladder is better detected by computer tomography. The presence of urolithiasis in smallest valid of size (˂ 5mm) is better detected by ultrasound, the presence of urolithiasis in veiled (˃ 1cm- 3cm) is better detected by computed tomography and the presence of urolithiasis in veiled (˃ 3cm- 5 cm) is better detected by computed tomography. The study recommended that all the people to drink plenty of water to driven dehydration specially who work under the sun light.