Clinical Trial: Baseline Evaluation of Lymph Nodes in the Lower Quadrant Young People Using Point of Care Ultrasound (BELLY-POCUS)

U.S., July 16 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07704814) titled 'Baseline Evaluation of Lymph Nodes in the Lower Quadrant Young People Using Point of Care Ultrasound (BELLY-POCUS)' on July 09.

Brief Summary: Abdominal pain is one of the commonest presentations to the paediatric emergency department. Many children are brought to the PED due to concerns about surgical intra-abdominal pathology such as appendicitis. Mesenteric adenitis is commonly attributed as a cause of the patient's pain but is done so without confirmatory imaging findings and as a diagnosis of exclusion.

There is a paucity of evidence pertaining to the sonographic findings of mesenteric adenitis.

We aim to categorise the norma...