Emergency abdominal ultrasound in children: current concepts.
As equipment and techniques in ultrasonography improve, its role in the evaluation of infants and children has increased. Besides the traditional uses in the solid viscera and biliary tract, US can be a primary modality in the workup of pediatric gastrointestinal disease.
Mendelson
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Dept. of Diagnostic Imaging, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, RI 02903, USA.
D000006:Abdomen, Acute / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D001064:Appendicitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004630:Emergencies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D011707:Pyloric Stenosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D012237:Rhode Island; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014463:Ultrasonography