Test characteristics of focused assessment of sonography for trauma for clinically significant abdominal free fluid in Pediatric Blunt Abdominal Trauma

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 477-482

  Fox, J Christian ^a   Boysen, Megan ^a   Gharahbaghian, Laleh ^b   Cusick, Seric ^c   Ahmed, Suleman S ^a   Anderson, Craig L ^a   Lekawa, Michael ^a   Langdorf, Mark I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Hoag Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOCUSED ASSESSMENT OF SONOGRAPHY IN TRAUMA; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMAN; INFANT; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 79956150205     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01071.x     Document Type: Article

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