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Pediatric Urogenital Radiology pp 701–720Cite as

Urinary Tract Trauma

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Evaluating a child who has sustained abdominal injury is a daily practice in a department of pediatric radiology. In this chapter, emphasis will be put on pediatric particularities of urinary tract injuries, with special focus on renal trauma. Obviously, renal trauma cannot be separated from other associated traumatic lesions. This is especially true in organizing the imaging strategy.

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  1. Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Santa Maria, HSM-CHLN, Avenida Professor Egas Moniz, 1649-035, Lisboa, Portugal

    Maria Luisa Lobo MD

  2. Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Rouen 1, Rue de Germont, 76031, Rouen, France

    Jean-Nicolas Dacher MD, PhD

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Lobo, M.L., Dacher, JN. (2018). Urinary Tract Trauma. In: Riccabona, M. (eds) Pediatric Urogenital Radiology. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39202-8_37

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