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The triage of patients with blunt abdominal trauma is as follows. Life-threatening conditions must be corrected first. Often severe skeletal injuries have to be immobilized to prevent further damage. In the course of the patient’s management, plain radiographs may be taken that can help evaluate the abdomen. If head or spinal injuries are present they must be evaluated and treated before the abdomen. If computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is being carried out for this purpose, the sections of the abdomen can be used to screen the major organs for injury. If CT or MRI is not being performed, then usually radionuclide kidney and liver and spleen single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging can be used to evaluate these organs. Ultrasound may be substituted but in some cases is not as reliable (Froelich, 1982).
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Gilday, D.L., Ash, J.M. (1991). Abdominal trauma. In: Maisey, M.N., Britton, K.E., Gilday, D.L. (eds) Clinical Nuclear Medicine. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3358-4_13
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