• Pediatric emergency care · Jun 2017

    Case Reports

    Emergency Point-of-Care Ultrasound Diagnosis of Retained Soft Tissue Foreign Bodies in the Pediatric Emergency Department.

    • Terry Varshney, Charisse W Kwan, Jason W Fischer, and Alyssa Abo.
    • From the *Department of Pediatrics, Ottawa University, Division of Emergency Medicine, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa; †Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Division of Emergen... more cy Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada; and ‡Department of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC. less
    • Pediatr Emerg Care. 2017 Jun 1; 33 (6): 434-436.

    AbstractThe presence of a foreign body (FB), its depth and size, is often indeterminate by clinical examination. Conventional imaging such as a radiograph can fail to visualize soft tissue FBs. We present 2 cases where point-of-care ultrasound was used to detect previously unidentified FBs.

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