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Emergency Point-of-Care Ultrasound Detection of Cancer in the Pediatric Emergency Department
Roaa S Jamjoom1, Yousef Etoom, Tanya Solano
1From the *Division of Paediatric Emergency Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; †Department of Paediatric, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; ‡St Joseph's Health Center, University of Toronto; §Division of Emergency Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto; ║Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, McMaster Children's Hospital Faculty of Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario; ¶Secteur Urgence, Département Pédiatrie, CHU Sainte-Justine University Hospital Centre, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec; #Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto; and **Division of Emergency Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Abstract:
The use of point-of-care ultrasound in the pediatric emergency department is evolving beyond conventional applications as users become more expert with the technology. In this case series, we describe the potential utility of recognizing abnormal anatomy to impact care in the context of possible cancer in pediatric patients. We describe 4 patients with Langerhans histiocytosis, neuroblastoma, Wilms tumor, and rhabdomyosarcoma, in which point-of-care ultrasound was used to facilitate the diagnoses.
