Abdominal injury

Abstract

Abdominal trauma is relatively infrequent among abuse, but may include intestinal perforation and damage to vital organs such as the liver and pancreas. In cases where potential organ injury cannot be ruled out, ultrasonography may be performed first to determine the presence of parenchymal organ damage or intestinal hematoma. Abdominal trauma due to abuse is common in children under the age of five years, a younger age than usually seen in traumatic abdominal trauma. Duodenal injury has not been reported in accidentally injured children under the age of four years, and duodenal trauma other than traffic accidents in children under the age of five years needs to be considered for abuse.

Some findings are specific to abuse in bone survey. On the other hand, for many abdominal injuries, it is difficult to specify the cause from only the imaging findings. It is considered important to comprehensively judge the image findings, clinical course, and blood test findings.