Role of focused appendiceal computed tomography in clinically equivocal acute appendicitis.

Objective: To determine the accuracy of FACT (focused appendiceal computed tomography) in evaluation of acute appendicitis.

Methods: The study was conducted in Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, over a period of one year. Sixty-three patients with clinically equivocal acute appendicitis underwent thin-section non-enhanced helical CT.

Role of magnetic resonance imaging in lumbar spondylosis.

Objective: To assess the frequency of various MRI findings in patients with lumbar spondylosis and determine their association with symptoms of patients.

Design: Cross-sectional analytical study.

Place And Duration Of Study: Radiology Department,The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, from January to December, 2002.

Transcatheter embolization of acute non-variceal gastrointestinal hemorrhage.

Objective: To determine the efficacy and safety of transcatheter embolization of nonvariceal gastrointestinal hemorrhage.

Design: Descriptive analytical study.

Place And Duration Of Study: Radiology Department, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan, from October 1999 to August 2004.