title: Pitfalls in pediatric radiology.
abstract: This essay depicts some of the diagnostic errors identified in a large academic pediatric imaging department during a 13-year period. Our aim is to illustrate potential situations in which errors are more likely to occur and more likely to cause harm, and to share our difficult cases so other radiologists might learn without having to experience those situations themselves.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA, 02115, USA, engelda@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Dawn R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Engelkemier
authors.forename: George A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Taylor
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D006801:Humans; D010372:Pediatrics