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Emergency Point-of-Care Ultrasound Diagnosis of Retained Soft Tissue Foreign Bodies in the Pediatric Emergency
Terry Varshney1, Charisse W Kwan, Jason W Fischer
1From 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 Emergency 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.
Abstract:
The 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.
