Blunt injury of the abdomen: a plea for CT

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Chowdhary, SK [1 ]
Pimpalwar, A [1 ]
Narasimhan, KL [1 ]
Katariya, S [1 ]
Rao, KLN [1 ]
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[1] Postgrad Inst Med Educ & Res, Adv Paediat Ctr, Dept Paediat Surg, Chandigarh 160012, India
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10.1007/s002470000330
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R72 [儿科学];
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A 3-year-old boy was brought to the emergency unit 1 h following a deceleration injury. On clinical examination there were no signs of injury and US showed only free intraperitoneal fluid. The following morning, contrast-enhanced CT showed the right kidney did not enhance and delayed scans showed contrast medium in the renal vein. This is an indirect sign of post-traumatic renal artery occlusion. Failure to recognise this sign may have disastrous consequences in a patient with solitary kidney or bilateral renal artery occlusion. Contrast-enhanced CT scan remains the most widely available investigation for accurate staging of blunt renal trauma.
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