Imaging Acute Abdomen in Children

- Introduction

- Emergency medicine from the clinician point of view; the various diseases; definitions of the term acute abdomen, emergency

- Imaging approach in children, the various techniques
- Imaging acute conditions in prematures and neontaes


o Managing antenatal diagnosis with acute neonatal presentation

o Acute abdominal conditions in the prematurely born


Necrotizing enterocolitis


Complications of IV lines
o The newborn and infant

Acute digestive conditions

· Intestinal obstruction

· Hepato-biliary anomalies

o Cholestasis, biliary atresia and its differential diagnosis

· Acute presentations of neonatal tumors and pseudo-masses


Acute urinary tract obstruction

· Posterior Urethral valves

· Prolapsing ureterocele

· Other causes of acute UT obstruction

Oligo-anuria in the neonate

Retroperitoneal tumors


Unusual neonatal conditions

o Children


Acute digestive conditions

· Appendicitis and DDX including colitis, ileitis,

· Hepatobiliary anomalies
· Acute pancreas anomalies


· Acute splenic anomalies


Acute conditions in female patients

Acute UT conditions

Urinary retention
· Hematuria


· UTI

· Uro-lithiasis


Tumors and pseudotumors


Abdominal trauma


Unusual acute conditions in children

La Timone Hospital, Marseille, France. He is a past treasurer of the Francophone Society of Pediatric and Prenatal Imaging (SFIPP) and current treasurer of the European Society of Paediatric Radiology (ESPR). Dr. Petit is a leading expert in abdominal imaging and interventional radiology and is the first author or co-author of more than 100 journal articles and 15 book chapters.