Injury
Volume 41, Issue 8 , Pages 862-868 , August 2010

Accuracy of clinician-performed point-of-care ultrasound for the diagnosis of fractures in children and young adults

  • Eric R. Weinberg

      Affiliations

    • Now with the Division of Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, United States.
    • ,
  • Michael G. Tunik
    • ,
  • James W. Tsung

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1 Gustave Levy Place, Box 1149, New York, NY 10029, United States. Tel.: +1 212 241 6272; fax: +1 212 426 7151.

,Accepted 19 April 2010.

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☆ Presented at the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting in Washington, DC, and the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, May 2008.

PII: S0020-1383(10)00272-X

doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2010.04.020

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