title: A Novice User of Pediatric Emergency Point-of-Care Ultrasonography Avoids Misdiagnosis in a Case of Chronic Abdominal Distention.
abstract: A 13-year-old adolescent girl with chronic abdominal distention was referred to the pediatric emergency department after the outpatient workup suggested moderate ascites. Point-of-care ultrasonography performed by the emergency physicians ruled out ascites, instead demonstrating a well-circumscribed cystic mass subsequently identified as an ovarian mucinous cystadenoma.
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Emergency Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY.
authors.forename: Marybelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pe
authors.forename: Eitan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Dickman
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tessaro
mesh_terms: D000005:Abdomen / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D000293:Adolescent; D002908:Chronic Disease; D018291:Cystadenoma, Mucinous / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D004108:Dilatation, Pathologic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020706:Laparoscopes; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D010372:Pediatrics; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems; D014463:Ultrasonography