Tension Gastrothorax in a Child Presenting with Abdominal Pain

A 4-year-old girl was brought to our hospital by her parents because of abdominal pain. She had suffered minor trauma after rolling from her standard-height bed 2 days prior. Vital signs were appropriate for age. Physical examination was remarkable for decreased breath sounds to the left side of the...

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Autores principales: Hooker, Ross, Claudius, Ilene, Truong, Anh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine 2012
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Pediatrics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3298226/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22461941
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2011.4.6763
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description A 4-year-old girl was brought to our hospital by her parents because of abdominal pain. She had suffered minor trauma after rolling from her standard-height bed 2 days prior. Vital signs were appropriate for age. Physical examination was remarkable for decreased breath sounds to the left side of the chest. A chest radiograph (Figure) demonstrated a large gas-filled structure in the left side of the chest with mediastinal shift.
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spelling pubmed-32982262012-03-29 Tension Gastrothorax in a Child Presenting with Abdominal Pain Hooker, Ross Claudius, Ilene Truong, Anh West J Emerg Med Pediatrics A 4-year-old girl was brought to our hospital by her parents because of abdominal pain. She had suffered minor trauma after rolling from her standard-height bed 2 days prior. Vital signs were appropriate for age. Physical examination was remarkable for decreased breath sounds to the left side of the chest. A chest radiograph (Figure) demonstrated a large gas-filled structure in the left side of the chest with mediastinal shift. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine 2012-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3298226/ /pubmed/22461941 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2011.4.6763 Text en the authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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title_short Tension Gastrothorax in a Child Presenting with Abdominal Pain
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3298226/
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