Whole-body computed tomography in polytrauma: Techniques and management

European Radiology

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1728-1740

  Linsenmaier, Ulrich ^a   Krötz, Michael ^a   Häuser, Hannes ^b   Rock, Clemens ^a   Rieger, Johannes ^a   Bohndorf, Klaus ^b   Pfeifer, Klaus Jürgen ^a   Reiser, Maximilian ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b KLINIKUM AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ATLS; Computed tomography; Emergency radiology; Multiple trauma; Polytrauma; Spiral CT

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SKULL BASE FRACTURE; SKULL INJURY; SPINE INJURY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX INJURY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WHOLE BODY SCANNER; WHOLE BODY TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

HUMANS; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036634378     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-001-1225-x     Document Type: Article

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