Fig. 6.1 (a) Longitudinal US view of the left shoulder of an 8-year-old girl performed for acute humeral pain shows an irregularity of the cortical aspect of the proximal humerus….
In the hemodynamic unstable young patient, the first evaluation is performed through e-FAST, a rapid diagnostic method carried out during the first aid approach, which is necessary to depict the…
Fig. 5.1 A drawing representing the different fracture patterns in pediatric age A complete fracture is a break that runs the entire width of a bone and it is classified…
Weight Tube current (mAs) Kilovoltage (kVp) <10 40 80 10–14 50 80 15–24 60 80 25–34 70 80 35–44 80 80 45–54 90 90 55–70 100–120 100–120 Routine pediatric thoracic…
Etiology % Motor vehicle accidents 38.2 Homicide 13.3 Drowning 13.2 Burn 9.1 Suicide 5.4 Suffocation 4.5 Other 16.3 In children, the area more frequently affected by trauma is the skull…
Fig. 7.1 Corner lesion (arrows in a and b) and bucket-handle lesion (arrows in c and d) 7.1.1 Rib Fractures Rib fractures occur in older children in case of motor…
Fig. 2.1 The axial head-MDCT with bone window shows a depressed fracture of the right frontoparietal bone They are more common patterns in nonaccidental cranial trauma, and each of these…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Vittorio Miele and Margherita Trinci (eds.)Imaging Trauma and Polytrauma in Pediatric Patients10.1007/978-3-319-08524-1_8 8. Informed Consent and Medicolegal Issues Related to the Imaging of Pediatric Traumatic Emergencies Antonio Pinto1 and Luigia Romano1 (1)…
