Upper abdominal trauma in children: imaging evaluation. AJR Am J Roentgenol 1984 Mar;142(3):449-60
Date
03/01/1984Pubmed ID
6607623DOI
10.2214/ajr.142.3.449Scopus ID
2-s2.0-0021320491 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site) 92 CitationsAbstract
One hundred consecutive children with serious blunt upper-abdominal injury were evaluated prospectively to assess the accuracy and usefulness of emergency computed tomography (CT) compared with liver-spleen scintigraphy and sonography. Ninety-five hemodynamically stable patients were imaged. The results of this 20-month study indicate that CT has fewer false negatives and false positives than scintigraphy or sonography, that CT is useful in abdominal trauma, and that CT provides the most information of any single diagnostic imaging test commonly available.
Author List
Kaufman RA, Towbin R, Babcock DS, Gelfand MJ, Guice KS, Oldham KT, Noseworthy JMESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
Abdominal InjuriesAdolescent
Child
Child, Preschool
Emergencies
Female
Humans
Kidney
Liver
Male
Radionuclide Imaging
Spleen
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Ultrasonography
Wounds, Nonpenetrating
