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Looking beyond Morison's pouch in focused assessment with sonography for trauma: penetrating hepatobiliary trauma and a new sign for emergency physicians
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- Abdominal injuries/ultrasonography wounds
- penetrating/ultrasonography
- gallbladder
- emergency service
- hospital
- acute medicine-other
- paediatrics
- paediatric emergency medicine
- ophthalmology
- infectious diseases
- viral
- neurology
- drug abuse
- soft tissue infection
- hypothermia
- soft tissue injury
A man presented to the emergency department with a stab wound to his right upper quadrant. His vital signs were in the normal range. Examination revealed a 1.5 cm wound at the junction of the subcostal margin and the linea semilunaris. There was localised peritonitic tenderness. Lactate was elevated at 4.3 mmol/l.
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