Outcomes after Embolization in Pediatric Abdominal Solid Organ Injury: A Trauma Center Experience

Abstract

Background Trauma is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide among children. Nonoperative management is the standard of care in hemodynamically stable children with blunt abdominal solid organ injury. Embolization is a potential pathway, which has shown increasing evidence for benefit in adult trauma patients. However, the data in children is limited.

Keywords

• pediatric abdominal solid organ trauma
• angiography
• nonoperative management
• angioembolization