Clinical Review
Capturing Elusive Foreign Bodies With Ultrasound
Emergency Medicine. 2009 June;41(6):36-42
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Lisa D. Mills, MD, and Christy Butts, MD
Embedded objects that are invisible on x-rays can waste physicians' precious time and upset patients. The authors describe the evidence favoring sonography as a superior technology for this purpose and a skill that urgent care physicians can quickly learn.