Abdominal lavage in blunt trauma
โ Scribed by William Gill; Howard R. Champion; William B. Long; Joseph Jamaris; R. Adams Cowley
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1975
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 342 KB
- Volume
- 62
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0007-1323
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## Abstract Over a 14-year period 587 children under 13 years of age were admitted with blunt injury to the abdomen. Twenty-nine (4.9 per cent) of these were found to have bowel rupture. Evidence of peritonitis was present at initial evaluation in 11 children (38 per cent). Radiological evidence of
## Computed tomography in the management of blunt abdominal trauma in children Sixteen children with suspected abdominal injury were reviewed. All underwent plain abdominal radiograph,y and computed tomography ( C T ) . Fifteen C T scans showed an abnormality, und the abdominal radiograph was abno
## Abstract Four cases of rupture of the retroperitoneal part of the duodenum after blunt abdominal trauma are documented. Two of the patients continued with normal activity for some hours before presenting at hospital, and although the other 2 presented shortly after the injury, the diagnosis in b
## Purpose: The radiological evaluation of patients with blunt abdominal trauma can be done with either ultrasound (us) or computed tomography (ct) with strategies varying considerably among institutions. we evaluated the efficacy of our current strategy in which us is used at our hospital as the p