Article Text

Download PDFPDF
Pancreatic trauma in a child
  1. J A Gilchrist1,
  2. P S Broadley2,
  3. R N Shawis3
  1. 1Department of Accident and Emergency Medicine, Sheffield Children's Hospital NHS Trust, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TH, UK
  2. 2Department of Radiology, Sheffield Children's Hospital NHS Trust
  3. 3Department of Paediatric Surgery, Sheffield Children's Hospital NHS Trust
  1. Correspondence to: Dr Gilchrist (Jude3{at}eggconnect.net)

Statistics from Altmetric.com

Request Permissions

If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

A 7 year old boy presented to the accident and emergency (A&E) department with an abdominal injury after a fall onto a bedpost while playing. He initially felt “dizzy” and went to bed but was brought to A&E six hours after the fall complaining of abdominal pain. On initial assessment he was pale and clammy with a capillary refill time of four seconds. Heart rate was …

View Full Text