Delay in diagnosis of blunt abdominal injuries in children and adolescents: a pictorial review of CT abdomen in HTAA

• Main Authors: Hassan, Radhiana, Abd. Aziz, Azian, Mohd Yusof, Mubarak, Che Mohamed, Siti Kamariah, Sa'at@Yusof, Azlin, Abdul Rashid, Mohd Amran
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: R Medicine (General); RJ Pediatrics
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/1838/1/2009_AOSPR_DELAY_IN_DIAGNOSIS%5B1%5D_copy.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/1838/

Bluntabdominal injuries are often difficult to be accurately assessed clinically especially with concomitant external injury, in patients with head injury and in paediatric patients1. CT scan is the modality of choice for the evaluation of abdominal injury due to blunt trauma in hemodynamically s...