Traumatic aortic injury: Diagnosis with contrast-enhanced thoracic CT - Five-year experience at a major trauma center

Radiology

Volumn 200, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 413-422

  Mirvis, Stuart E ^a   Shanmuganathan, Kethirkamuganathan ^a   Miller, Barbara H ^a   White, Charles S ^a   Turney, Stephen Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aorta, CT; Aorta, injuries; Efficacy study, CT; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA INJURY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FALSE ANEURYSM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX INJURY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029891734     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.200.2.8685335     Document Type: Article

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