ArticleCritical ultrasound journal2013
Contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) in blunt abdominal trauma.
Article in Critical ultrasound journal, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03490929 (Contrast Enhanced Ultrasonography for Blunt Abdominal Trauma Imaging in Children), which is not on this map. Cited by 24 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Contrast Enhanced Ultrasonography for Blunt Abdominal Trauma Imaging in Children
Who cites it
24 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 68 citations in OpenAlex.
- Diagnostic performance of contrast-enhanced ultrasound in traumatic solid organ injuries in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Pediatric radiology · 2025Pooled it
- Diagnostic accuracy of contrast enhanced ultrasound in patients with blunt abdominal trauma presenting to the emergency department: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2017Pooled it
- Emergency ultrasound-based algorithms for diagnosing blunt abdominal trauma.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- CEUS for characterization of post-CPR subcapsular liver injury in a potential organ donor.Journal of ultrasound · 2026Article
- Extended Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma in the Emergency Department: A Comprehensive Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Intraoperative Ultrasound Guidance in Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy: A Retrospective Analysis of Perioperative Outcomes.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Intraoperative Ultrasound: Bridging the Gap between Laparoscopy and Surgical Precision during 3D Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomies.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Follow-up strategies for patients with splenic trauma managed non-operatively: the 2022 World Society of Emergency Surgery consensus document.World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2022Review
- Contrast-enhanced ultrasound of the kidneys: principles and potential applications.Abdominal radiology (New York) · 2022Review
- Contrast-enhanced ultrasound of blunt abdominal trauma in children.Pediatric radiology · 2021Review
- Use of contrast-enhanced ultrasound for the diagnosis of idiopathic renal hematuria in a dog.Open veterinary journal · 2020Article
- Clinical use of contrast-enhanced ultrasound beyond the liver: a focus on renal, splenic, and pancreatic applications.Ultrasonography (Seoul, Korea) · 2019Article
- Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) in pediatric blunt abdominal trauma.Journal of ultrasound · 2019Review
- Diagnosis and management of urinary extravasation after high-grade renal trauma.Nature reviews. Urology · 2019Review
- Contrast-enhanced ultrasonography of post-interventional hematoma: the bleeding mushroom is growing inside.Journal of medical ultrasonics (2001) · 2018Article
- Imaging of post-operative spine in intervertebral disc pathology.Musculoskeletal surgery · 2017Review
- Enhancing the role of paediatric ultrasound with microbubbles: a review of intravenous applications.The British journal of radiology · 2017Review
- Diagnostic imaging of blunt abdominal trauma in pediatric patients.La Radiologia medica · 2016Review
- Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) in blunt abdominal trauma.The British journal of radiology · 2016Review
- Quantitative correlational study of microbubble-enhanced ultrasound imaging and magnetic resonance imaging of glioma and early response to radiotherapy in a rat model.Medical physics · 2015Article
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8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
In the assessment of polytrauma patient, an accurate diagnostic study protocol with high sensitivity and specificity is necessary. Computed Tomography (CT) is the standard reference in the emergency for evaluating the patients with abdominal trauma. Ultrasonography (US) has a high sensitivity in detecting free fluid in the peritoneum, but it does not show as much sensitivity for traumatic parenchymal lesions. The use of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) improves the accuracy of the method in the diagnosis and assessment of the extent of parenchymal lesions. Although the CEUS is not feasible as a method of first level in the diagnosis and management of the polytrauma patient, it can be used in the follow-up of traumatic injuries of abdominal parenchymal organs (liver, spleen and kidneys), especially in young people or children.
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