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Focused Abdominal Sonography For Trauma (Fast) In Blunt Paediatric Abdominal Trauma, Ahmad Vaqas Faruque, Saqib Hamid Qazi, Muhammad Arif Mateen Khan, Wassem Akhtar, Amina Majeed
Focused Abdominal Sonography For Trauma (Fast) In Blunt Paediatric Abdominal Trauma, Ahmad Vaqas Faruque, Saqib Hamid Qazi, Muhammad Arif Mateen Khan, Wassem Akhtar, Amina Majeed
Section of Paediatric Surgery
Objective: To evaluate the role of focussed abdominal sonography for trauma in blunt paediatric abdominal trauma patients, and to see if the role of computed tomography scan could be limited to only those cases in which sonography was positive.
Methods: The retrospective study covered 10 years, from January 1,2000 to December 31,2009, and was conducted at the Department of Radiology and Department of Emergency Medicine, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi. It comprised cases of 174 children from birth to 14 years who had presented with blunt abdominal trauma and had focussed abdominal sonography for trauma done at the hospital. The …