Point-of-care ultrasound identification of pneumatosis intestinalis in pediatric abdominal pain: a case report

We describe a case report of an infant with intussusception who presented to a pediatric emergency department with diarrhea and increased irritability. Pneumatosis intestinalis (intra-mural air) detected on point-of-care ultrasonography (but not apparent on plain abdominal radiographs) alerted the e...

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Autores principales: James, Vigil, Warier, Aswin, Lee, Khai Pin, Ong, Gene Yong-Kwang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Milan 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5247383/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28105581
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13089-017-0057-0
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description We describe a case report of an infant with intussusception who presented to a pediatric emergency department with diarrhea and increased irritability. Pneumatosis intestinalis (intra-mural air) detected on point-of-care ultrasonography (but not apparent on plain abdominal radiographs) alerted the emergency physicians towards the severity of disease process.
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spelling pubmed-52473832017-02-02 Point-of-care ultrasound identification of pneumatosis intestinalis in pediatric abdominal pain: a case report James, Vigil Warier, Aswin Lee, Khai Pin Ong, Gene Yong-Kwang Crit Ultrasound J Case Report We describe a case report of an infant with intussusception who presented to a pediatric emergency department with diarrhea and increased irritability. Pneumatosis intestinalis (intra-mural air) detected on point-of-care ultrasonography (but not apparent on plain abdominal radiographs) alerted the emergency physicians towards the severity of disease process. Springer Milan 2017-01-19 /pmc/articles/PMC5247383/ /pubmed/28105581 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13089-017-0057-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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title Point-of-care ultrasound identification of pneumatosis intestinalis in pediatric abdominal pain: a case report
title_full Point-of-care ultrasound identification of pneumatosis intestinalis in pediatric abdominal pain: a case report
title_fullStr Point-of-care ultrasound identification of pneumatosis intestinalis in pediatric abdominal pain: a case report
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title_short Point-of-care ultrasound identification of pneumatosis intestinalis in pediatric abdominal pain: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5247383/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13089-017-0057-0
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