Affiliations 

  • 1 From the Hospital Tunku Azizah, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 2 Children's Emergency, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore
  • 3 Jalan Hospital
Pediatr Emerg Care, 2022 Apr 01;38(4):183-186.
PMID: 34608058 DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000002555

Abstract

Abdominal pain is one of the most common presenting complaints encountered in the pediatric emergency department. The use of point-of-care ultrasonography by emergency physicians has been shown to expedite the diagnosis of a large variety of conditions and can be used to accurately identify intra-abdominal pathology in children. We describe the case of a pediatric patient who presented to the pediatric emergency department with acute abdominal pain, in whom point-of-care ultrasonography helped expedite the diagnosis of acute portal vein thrombosis and liver abscess.

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