Population
184 children less than 18 years of age diagnosed with a blunt cardiac injury from 1983 to 1993, median age…
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Case_series
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Diagnostic discordance in pediatric blunt cardiac injury cautions against single-test reliance; hypothesis-generating for standardized criteria in prospective studies.
Pediatric blunt cardiac injury typically occurs in the setting of severe multisystem trauma, with poor agreement among diagnostic modalities and rare unanticipated cardiac complications in hospitalized patients.
Dowd et al. (1996) studied this question.
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