@article{ref1,
title="Abdominal injuries in children. The value of emergency abdominal ultrasonography",
journal="Archives de Pediatrie",
year="1998",
author="Elabbassi-Skalli, A. and Ouzidane, L. and Maani, K. and Benjelloun, A. and Ksiyer, M.",
volume="5",
number="3",
pages="269-273",
abstract="UNLABELLED: Abdominal injuries are frequent in children. Their early assessment is the best guarantee for an accurate management. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Seventy children with abdominal trauma were evaluated by early ultrasonography. RESULTS: This investigation found abnormalities in 52 patients, with hematic peritoneal effusion in 26 cases, renal lesion in 20 cases, hepatic lesion in ten cases, splenic lesion in seven cases and a lesion involving liver, spleen and pancreas in one case. Based on these results, surgery was performed in six cases. The remaining cases were simply supervised with a good prognosis. CONCLUSION: Ultrasonography represents the main investigation in children's abdominal trauma, allowing an early, efficient and non-costly morphological diagnosis. Computerized tomography (CT) scan has some particular indications.<p /><p>Language: fr</p>",
language="fr",
issn="0929-693X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}