Paediatric Imaging 1985

Paediatric slow-speed non-traffic fatalities: Victoria, Australia, 1985-1995.

An important group of fatal incidents are slow-speed pedestrian non-traffic incidents to children, which account for 14% of accidental deaths from all causes in Victorian children under 5 years of age between 1985 and 1995, and 12% of pedestrian deaths of all ages. In Victoria, Australia, the database of the state Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Morbidity and Mortality was util...

Imaging in paediatric stroke

Stroke is defined as a cerebrovascular abnormality that results in a rapid onset of neurological symptoms lasting longer than 24 hours or causing death. Stroke in children is an underrecognised condition, despite being a common cause of childhood death. The neonate is particularly vulnerable, with neonatal stroke being nine times more common than in the general paediatric population. The aetiol...

Pitfalls in paediatric oncology imaging

Imaging a new mass lesion in a child requires careful consideration of a variety of issues. The age of the child is an important factor in determining the appropriate test to start with and the age also helps provide an appropriate differential diagnosis, which can then be used to guide further imaging. The long-term outcome for most children with cancer is very good, with over 70% achieving 5-...

Imaging the acute paediatric abdomen

Advances in paediatric tumour imaging.

There have been a number of major advances in imaging technology in recent years. Here we discuss in detail multislice CT and PET, since these are the two modalities generating the most interest in cancer imaging, but which also have the potential for significantly increasing the radiation burden in the paediatric population. In addition, we focus on the implications of the new Response Evaluat...