Computed tomographic angiography for the diagnosis of blunt cervical vascular injury: Is it ready for primetime?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 925-929

  Eastman, Alexander L ^a   Chason, David P ^a   Perez, Carlos L ^a   McAnulty, Amy L ^a   Minei, Joseph P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blunt cervical vascular injury; Carotid artery injury; Computed tomographic angiography; Diagnosis; Screening; Traumatic vascular injury; Vertebral artery injury

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNOLOGY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; ARTERIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOTE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; CAROTID ARTERY INJURIES; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL BONE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKULL FRACTURES; SPINAL FRACTURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 33646855780     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000197479.28714.62     Document Type: Article

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