title: [Ascite and head trauma in a child].
abstract: We report the case of an 11 months old boy who felt from 3 m high. He had an isolated brain injury with contusion and bleeding in the right frontal lobe. A large ascite was discovered in the Intensive Care Unit 6 days after the trauma. The CT scan did not reveal any abdominal lesion. This peritoneal fluid was transudative ascitic fluid which appeared to be mediated by beta-sympathetic hyperactivity of central origin. Sequential echography showed progressive improvement and disappearance of the ascite on 19th day post trauma.
authors.affiliation: Service de chirurgie infantile, Hôtel-Dieu, avenue Vercingétorix, BP 69, 63003 Clermont-Ferrand 1, France. laplace.christophe@wanadoo.fr
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Laplace
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bonnard-Gougeon
mesh_terms: D001201:Ascites / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000473:pathology; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D020300:Intracranial Hemorrhages / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D011943:Receptors, Adrenergic, beta / Q000502:physiology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography
chemical_list: D011943:Receptors, Adrenergic, beta