Carlos J. Sivit, MD #{149}George A. Taylor, MD Leon M. Bowman, BA #{149}Martin R. Eichelberger,

Blunt Trauma Significance

Index

terms: Abdomen, injuries, 70.41, 80.41 Children, injuries #{149} Pemitoneum, CT, 791.1211 Peritoneum, fluid, 791 .43 #{149} Retroperitoneal space, injuries, 80.41 1991; 178:185-188

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in the

tion of blunt abdominal children (1-3). Most

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sessment computed

evalua-

that

follow

blunt

trauma.

comprehensive

article

has been written frey, it involved

capillary

and

adult

on this

population

ment

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spect

to nonopemative

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subject

(4). Since

differ

adults,

between

with

me-

fluid

in

AND January

METHODS

1983

4,845 children who ma were examined

and

March

1990,

sustained blunt trauby the trauma team at

our institution, which serves as a regional pediatric trauma center for a large metropolitan area. Seven hundred ninety-eight children who were hemodynamically stable

after

clinical injury

initial

resuscitation

examination to intra-abdominal

went

abdominal

dren before from

had undergone undergoing the study.

ecchymoses,

(

Blunt trauma in children: significance of peritoneal fluid.

Seven hundred ninety consecutively seen children who had not undergone peritoneal lavage underwent imaging with computed tomography (CT) after blunt t...
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