Imaging Acute Abdomen in Children

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: E. Avni, Fred (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Petit, Philippe (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Radiology.; Pediatrics.; Gastroenterology .; Urology.; Diagnostic Radiology.; Gastroenterology.

This book aims to equip readers with a sound understanding of the imaging strategies that are appropriate in children with acute abdominal conditions. The starting points are the clinical conditions, which are outlined in an introduction presented by pediatrician experts in emergency medicine, and t...

Table of Contents:

• Pediatric emergencies: what is it about?  What approach?
• Surgical pediatric imaging: What is it about? What approach?
• Imaging and emergency: What modalities ? What Strategy ?
• The prematurely born
• Antenatal diagnosis necessitating immediate neonatal management
• Acute renal failure in the neonate
• Neonatal obstructions of the digestive tract
• Obstructive cholestasis and acute hepatobiliary diseases  in the neonate
• Intestinal obstructions
• Appendicitis
• Meckel's diverticulum
• Inflammatory bowel diseases
• Acute Intestinal Intussusception
• Peritonitis, mesentery and omentum diseases
• Acute hepato-biliary diseases
• Acute pancreatitis
• Acute splenic diseases
• Urinary tract infection
• Uro-lithiasis
• Acute Urinary tract obstruction
• Acute renal failure in children
• The urachus
• Complications of Renal Graft
• Imaging the  female patients Adnexal torsion
• Abdominal trauma
• Foreign bodies
• Acute presentations of neoplasia and - malignant  hemopathies
• Acute presentations of non malignant hemopathies
• Acute presentation of systemic diseases
• At the boundaries or the abdomen.