Preliminary experience with focused abdominal sonography for trauma (FAST) in children: Is it useful?

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 48-54

  Mutabagani, K H ^a,b   Coley, B D ^a   Zumberge, N ^a   McCarthy, D W ^a   Besner, G E ^a   Caniano, D A ^a   Cooney, D R ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b New Jeddah Clinic Hospital   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Trauma; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL HEMORRHAGE; ADULT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE INJURY; KIDNEY INJURY; LIVER INJURY; MALE; PERITONEAL FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN INJURY;

EID: 0032959197     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3468(99)90227-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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