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Pediatric emergency care · Aug 2017
Case ReportsPoint-of-Care Ultrasound Identification of an Abdominal Hernia.
- Michael Alfonzo, Anna von Reinhart, and Antonio Riera.
- From the *Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Weill Cornell New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY; and †Emergency Medicine and ‡Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
- Pediatr Emerg Care. 2017 Aug 1; 33 (8): 596-598.
AbstractPediatric emergency medicine physicians may be able to use point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) as a tool to evaluate abdominal wall masses. We present a case of a 2-month-old infant with a lower abdominal mass identified as a hernia sac by POCUS. It was initially thought to represent a Spigelian-type abdominal wall hernia but subsequently determined to be an unusual presentation of an inguinal hernia with testicular entrapment. We review each of these diagnoses in addition to relevant POCUS findings.
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