Are occult pneumothoraces truly occult or simply missed?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 294-298

  Ball, Chad G ^a   Kirkpatrick, Andrew W ^a   Fox, Danial L ^b   Laupland, Kevin B ^c   Louis, Luck J ^b   Andrews, Gordon D ^b   Dunlop, M Patricia ^b   Kortbeek, John B ^a   Nicolaou, Savvas ^b  

^a FOOTHILLS HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b VANCOUVER HOSPITAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^c Foothills Medical Centre ^*

Author keywords

Occult pneumothorax; Pneumothorax; Radiography; Resuscitation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP SULCUS SIGN; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OBSERVER VARIATION; OCCULT PNEUMOTHORAX; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RESUSCITATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; BLUNT TRAUMA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONSENSUS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; IMAGE QUALITY; INCIDENCE; INJURY SCALE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STANDARD; STATISTICS; SUPINE POSITION; THORAX INJURY; VALIDATION STUDY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONSENSUS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PNEUMOTHORAX; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RADIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SUPINE POSITION; THORACIC INJURIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 33646091324     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000202462.96207.18     Document Type: Article

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