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Upper abdominal trauma in children: imaging evaluation

Conference · · Am. J. Roentgenol.; (United States)
OSTI ID:7134681
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 indicated 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.
Research Organization:
Univ. of Cincinnati, OH
OSTI ID:
7134681
Conference Information:
Journal Name: Am. J. Roentgenol.; (United States) Journal Volume: 142:3
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English