Discriminate diagnostic peritoneal lavage in blunt abdominal injuries: accuracy and hazards.
The diagnostic peritoneal lavage for hemoperitoneum in blunt abdominal injuries is a safe test, and its high accuracy reported in unselected consecutive cases, is maintained equally in the clinically equivocal patients, the very group where one is expected to relay more decisively on the results of the D.P.L.
D000007:Abdominal Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D005188:False Negative Reactions; D005189:False Positive Reactions; D006465:Hemoperitoneum / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007507:Therapeutic Irrigation; D014949:Wounds, Nonpenetrating / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery