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- The study emphasizes the importance of ultrasound in diagnosing gastrointestinal issues in children and infants, addressing both acute and chronic conditions.
- The small size and low fat tissue of pediatric patients make ultrasound particularly effective for imaging the gastrointestinal tract.
- The paper reviews the relevant anatomy, ultrasound techniques, and common sonographic findings related to bowel pathologies encountered in emergency situations for neonates and children.
Article Abstract
The study of the gastrointestinal tract by imaging, particularly using ultrasound, is a required instrument for diagnosis of acute and chronic gastrointestinal pathologies in pediatric age. Actually, ultrasound plays an increasing role in the evaluation of gastrointestinal tract in neonatal and pediatric patients because of their small body habitus and the presence of less fat tissue in the abdominal wall and peritoneal cavity. Ultrasound has certain advantages, thanks to the new wide-spectrum frequency probes able to assess a detailed study of the morphological aspects and functional characteristics of bowel loops, adding a new dimension to the imaging of this body system. In this paper, we review anatomy, ultrasound technique and sonographic findings of bowel pathology frequently encountered in neonatal and pediatric emergency setting.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6838286 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40477-018-00355-0 | DOI Listing |
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