Basilar Atelectasis as the True Predictor of Acute Abdomino-Pelvic Pathology -- A Two Year Retrospective Study of Patients under the Age of 55 Evaluated with Multi-detector CT-Scan

The purpose of the study is to show the presence of basilar atelectasis in otherwise healthy young individuals who come to the ER, as the positive predictor of acute clinical presentations to an underlying abdomino-pelvic pathology. This study represents 289 retrospective charts/images reviewed from data obtained from ER and PACS database for all patients under 55 years from September 1, 2011 to August 31, 2013 who had a CT abdomen/pelvis ordered at the Larkin Community Hospital ER. The results obtained from this study suggest that a relative risk (RR) of 2.0 which is equivalent to 100% correlation exists in individuals who come to the ER with basilar atelectasis could have an underlying abdomino-pelvis pathology.