What is the significance of contrast "blush" in pediatric blunt splenic trauma?

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 916-920

  Davies, Dafydd A ^a   Ein, Sigmund H ^a   Pearl, Richard ^b   Langer, Jacob C ^a   Traubici, Jeff ^a   Mikrogianakis, Angelo ^a   Wales, Paul W ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b Children's Hospital of Illinois   (United States)

Author keywords

Blush; Contrast extravasation; Nonoperative management; Pediatric; Spleen; Trauma

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLUNT TRAUMA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM EXTRAVASATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPLEEN INJURY;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; EXTRAVASATION OF DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC MATERIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SPLEEN; SPLENIC ARTERY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 77951530516     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2010.02.013     Document Type: Article

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