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SUBMITTER: Hwang JY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5494868 | biostudies-other | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Ultrasonography (Seoul, Korea) 20170125 3
Ultrasonography (US) is widely used to evaluate most body parts in pediatric patients because it is simple, noninvasive, easy to use, and applicable in a wide variety of clinical situations. US is the modality of choice for the initial evaluation of acute abdominal pain in pediatric patients because of their small body habitus and the presence of less fat tissue in the abdominal wall and peritoneal cavity. The most important factor in performing pediatric emergency US is the graded compression t ...[more]