To present the preferred imaging approach and differentiating imaging features of selected non-traumatic disorders encountered in pediatric emergency department patients with musculoskeletal complaints. These disorders include infectious, rheumatologic, hematologic/oncologic, and metabolic conditions capable of causing serious morbidity or mortality if not diagnosed and treated promptly. Particular attention will be focused on the emerging childhood epidemic of community-acquired staphylococcal infection that is associated with invasive musculoskeletal disease and a high frequency of extraosseous complications amenable to diagnosis by imaging.
Guillerman, R,
Musculoskeletal Imaging of the Pediatric Emergency Department Patient: Not Just Fractures. Radiological Society of North America 2007 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, November 25 - November 30, 2007 ,Chicago IL.
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