A Novice User of Pediatric Emergency Point-of-Care Ultrasonography Avoids Misdiagnosis in a Case of Chronic Abdominal Distention

Pediatr Emerg Care. 2016 Feb;32(2):116-9. doi: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000000707.

Abstract

A 13-year-old adolescent girl with chronic abdominal distention was referred to the pediatric emergency department after the outpatient workup suggested moderate ascites. Point-of-care ultrasonography performed by the emergency physicians ruled out ascites, instead demonstrating a well-circumscribed cystic mass subsequently identified as an ovarian mucinous cystadenoma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abdomen / diagnostic imaging*
  • Adolescent
  • Chronic Disease
  • Cystadenoma, Mucinous / diagnostic imaging*
  • Cystadenoma, Mucinous / surgery
  • Diagnostic Errors*
  • Dilatation, Pathologic / diagnostic imaging
  • Emergency Service, Hospital
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Laparoscopes
  • Ovarian Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Ovarian Neoplasms / surgery
  • Pediatrics
  • Point-of-Care Systems*
  • Ultrasonography