title: [Ultrasound diagnosis following blunt abdominal trauma. Sonography in acute and follow-up diagnosis].
abstract: Experience with ultrasonography as a non-invasive imaging procedure for acute and follow-up diagnostic evaluation of blunt abdominal trauma was analysed in a retrospective study. Between 1980 and 1988, more than 2,000 ultrasonographic investigations were performed for blunt abdominal trauma; 246 patients were laparotomized. Retrospectively, false results based on ultrasonography were less than 1% of all cases, so that the sole use of ultrasonographic diagnosis and the non-use of peritoneal lavage seems justified in cases of blunt abdominal trauma. A number of figures illustrate typical cases.
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Kohlberger
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Strittmatter
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Waninger
mesh_terms: D000007:Abdominal Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D014463:Ultrasonography; D014949:Wounds, Nonpenetrating / Q000175:diagnosis*
vernacular_title: Ultraschalldiagnostik nach stumpfem Abdominaltrauma. Sonographie in der Akut- und Verlaufsdiagnostik.