Randomized noninferiority trial shows ultrasound achieves target 4-week arm function versus radiography in pediatric forearm injury, indicating ultrasound is an effective first-line tool.
In children and adolescents with a distal forearm injury, the use of ultrasonography as the initial diagnostic imaging method was noninferior to radiography with regard to the outcome of physical function of the arm at 4 weeks. (Funded by the Emergency Medicine Foundation and others; BUCKLED Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry number, ACTRN12620000637943).
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