Citation

Slovis TL, Strouse PJ, Strauss KJ. J. Pediatr. 2015; 167(5): 963-968.

Affiliation

Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jpeds.2015.07.064

PMID

26354874

Abstract

Recent articles on child abuse in this journal discussed the value of ordering a skeletal survey in children age 24-36 months and the need for a computed tomography (CT) of the head in children less than 2 years with an isolated single nonmetaphyseal long bone fracture. The benefits of these and other imaging studies are not merely in the number of positive tests. Negative results can be extremely important. However, both radiography and CT use ionizing radiation (X-rays). Determining the risks of radiation exposure from medical imaging is not straight forward.

Language: en