Commentary: Sonography as a first-line modality in the diagnosis of malrotation WITH volvulus

George A Taylor^{1

2}, Cicero T Silva³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 3401 Civic Center Blvd, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
² Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck St., Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
³ Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine, 330 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA. cicero.silva@yale.edu.

Editorial

George A Taylor et al. Pediatr Radiol. 2023 Oct.

. 2023 Oct;53(11):2208-2209.

doi: 10.1007/s00247-023-05751-1. Epub 2023 Sep 20.

George A Taylor^{1

2}, Cicero T Silva³

¹ Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 3401 Civic Center Blvd, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
² Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck St., Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
³ Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine, 330 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA. cicero.silva@yale.edu.

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