ReviewLa Radiologia medica2016
Diagnostic imaging of blunt abdominal trauma in pediatric patients.
Review in La Radiologia medica, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03473249 (Clinical Effectiveness of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound in the Evaluation of Blunt Abdominal Trauma in Young Children), which is not on this map. Cited by 44 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Clinical Effectiveness of Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound in the Evaluation of Blunt Abdominal Trauma in Young Children
Who cites it
44 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 105 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
- European Society of Paediatric Radiology abdominal imaging task force: recommendations for contrast-enhanced ultrasound and diffusion-weighted imaging in focal renal lesions in children.Pediatric radiology · 2020Guideline
- An omentum protrusion: a case of traumatic abdominal wall hernia in a child.Trauma case reports · 2026Article
- Treat the patient, not the grade of injury: modern management of solid organ trauma in children.BMC surgery · 2026Article
- Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) in urgent and emergent pediatric conditions: a comprehensive review.Emergency radiology · 2026Review
- Computed tomography of pediatric abdominal trauma: optimizing utilization and enhancing diagnostic interpretation.Pediatric radiology · 2025Review
- The current state of forensic imaging- clinical forensic imaging.International journal of legal medicine · 2025Review
- Enhancing clinical risk assessment in pediatric blunt abdominal trauma: A novel scoring system using ultrasound and laboratory data.BMC emergency medicine · 2025Article
- Compression of the anterior abdominal wall resulting in colonic perforation in the absence of external injury: A rarely documented case.SAGE open medical case reports · 2025Article
- The Diagnosis and Management of Pediatric Blunt Abdominal Trauma-A Comprehensive Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Gastrointestinal Perforation with Blunt Abdominal Trauma in Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- A Comprehensive Analysis of the Radiation Exposure and the Diagnostic Benefit of PanCT in Pediatric Cases with Multiple Trauma.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- The role of Lung Ultrasound in the diagnosis of SARS-COV-2 disease in pregnant women.Journal of ultrasound · 2023Observational
- Pediatric trauma and the role of the interventional radiologist.Emergency radiology · 2022Review
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- External validation of a pediatric decision rule for blunt abdominal trauma.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2022Article
- Delayed Surgery to Preserve Kidney with Grade IV Injury.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2022Article
- Blunt renal trauma in children: the experience of Mohammed VI University Hospital of Oujda in Morocco between 2015 and 2021.The Pan African medical journal · 2022Article
- Contrast-enhanced ultrasound of blunt abdominal trauma in children.Pediatric radiology · 2021Review
- Diagnostic evaluation and ablation treatments assessment in hepatocellular carcinoma.Infectious agents and cancer · 2021Review
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Trauma is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in childhood, and blunt trauma accounts for 80-90 % of abdominal injuries. The mechanism of trauma is quite similar to that of the adults, but there are important physiologic differences between children and adults in this field, such as the smaller blood vessels and the high vasoconstrictive response, leading to the spreading of a non-operative management. The early imaging of children undergoing a low-energy trauma can be performed by CEUS, a valuable diagnostic tool to demonstrate solid organ injuries with almost the same sensitivity of CT scans; nevertheless, as for as urinary tract injuries, MDCT remains still the technique of choice, because of its high sensitivity and accuracy, helping to discriminate between an intra-peritoneal form a retroperitoneal urinary leakage, requiring two different managements. The liver is the most common organ injured in blunt abdominal trauma followed by the spleen. Renal, pancreatic, and bowel injuries are quite rare. In this review we present various imaging findings of blunt abdominal trauma in children.
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