Open AccessUpper abdominal trauma in children: imaging evaluation
Author(s) -
Robert A. Kaufman,
Richard B. Towbin,
DS Babcock,
Gelfand Mj,
Guice Ks,
Oldham Kt,
John H. Noseworthy
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
american journal of roentgenology
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.294
H-Index - 196
eISSN - 1546-3141
pISSN - 0361-803X
DOI - 10.2214/ajr.142.3.449
Subject(s) - medicine , abdominal trauma , radiology , nuclear medicine , blunt
One hundred consecutive children with serious blunt upper-abdominal injury were evaluated prospectively to assess the accuracy and usefulness of emergency computed tomography (CT) compared with liver-spleen scintigraphy and sonography. Ninety-five hemodynamically stable patients were imaged. The results of this 20-month study indicate that CT has fewer false negatives and false positives than scintigraphy or sonography, that CT is useful in abdominal trauma, and that CT provides the most information of any single diagnostic imaging test commonly available.