POCUS Case Review
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Lei Chen; Antonio Riera; Rabia N. Malik
- Source
- Pediatric Emergency Care. 37:172-174
- Subject
- Pediatric emergency
medicine.medical_specialty
Abdominal pain
Adolescent
Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome
Vomiting
Case review
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Weight loss
030225 pediatrics
medicine
Humans
Child
Ultrasonography
business.industry
Ultrasound
030208 emergency & critical care medicine
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Abdominal Pain
Surgery
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Emergency Medicine
Female
medicine.symptom
Emergency Service, Hospital
business
Superior mesenteric artery syndrome
- Language
- ISSN
- 1535-1815
0749-5161
We report a case of a 16-year-old adolescent girl who presented to the pediatric emergency department for worsening abdominal pain and vomiting and had significant weight loss over the previous 4 months. Point-of-care ultrasound was used to assess for signs of superior mesenteric artery syndrome.