Imaging in Pediatric Blunt Abdominal Trauma

Seminars in Roentgenology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 72-82

  Bixby, Sarah D ^a   Callahan, Michael J ^a   Taylor, George A ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DUODENUM INJURY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; KIDNEY INJURY; LIVER INJURY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PANCREAS INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SPLEEN HEMATOMA; SPLEEN INJURY; ULTRASOUND;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 36348964805     PISSN: 0037198X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ro.2007.08.009     Document Type: Article

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