Abstract
Background Sonography has played an important role on detection of intraabdominal injuries with a sensitivity of 86%, a specificity of 98%, and an accuracy of 97% [1]. Negative predictive value achieved about 98% [1]. However, gallbladder injury is rare with incidence around 2.1% [2,3] in blunt abdominal trauma [2], and commonly associated with the solid organ injury or abdominal vascular injury [4]. Isolated gallbladder injury were very few[3] including traumatic cholecystitis, gallbladder tear, and gallbladder perforation ...etc. Ultrasound is very sensitive to gallbladder disease. We presented a rare case of isolated gallbladder hematoma after a blunt abdominal trauma which diagnosis by Focused Gallbladder ultrasound.
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Full list of author information is available at the end of the article contusion was commonly defined as intramural hematoma
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Sonography has played an important role on detection of intraabdominal injuries with a sensitivity of 86%, a specificity of 98%, and an accuracy of 97% [1]
Summary
Sonography has played an important role on detection of intraabdominal injuries with a sensitivity of 86%, a specificity of 98%, and an accuracy of 97% [1]. Case report A 29-year-old previous healthy man was a motorcycle driver, and he bumped into another motorcycle one day ago. He visited our emergency department due to progressive right upper abdominal pain. Initial vital signs showed a body temperature of 35.4°C, a blood pressure of 147/86 mmHg, and a pulse rate of 56/min.
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