Imaging paediatric blunt abdominal trauma in the emergency department: Ultrasound versus computed tomography

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 645-648

  Browning, Jen G ^a   Wilkinson, A G ^a   Beattie, T ^a  

^a ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLADDER RUPTURE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DUODENUM INJURY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN INJURY; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL INTESTINE PERFORATION; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 55349089933     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2007.051862     Document Type: Article

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