Computed tomographic angiography as a screening modality for blunt cervical arterial injuries: Preliminary results

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 380-385

  Rogers, Frederick B ^a,c   Baker, Eileen F ^a   Osler, Turner M ^a   Shackford, Steven R ^a   Wald, Steven L ^a   Vieco, Pedro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Radiology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTERY INJURY; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FALSE ANEURYSM; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MANDIBLE FRACTURE; MORBIDITY; NECK INJURY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE;

EID: 0033003468     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-199903000-00005     Document Type: Article

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