The use of chest computed tomography versus chest X-ray in patients with major blunt trauma

Injury

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 43-47

  Traub, Matthias ^a   Stevenson, Mark ^b   McEvoy, Suzanne ^b   Briggs, Greg ^a   Lo, Sing Kai ^c   Leibman, Steven ^a   Joseph, Tony ^a  

^a ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blunt chest trauma; Chest X ray; Clinical predictors; CT chest scan

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; BREATHING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CONTUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIB FRACTURE; SCAPULA FRACTURE; STERNUM FRACTURE; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTUSIONS; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HEMOTHORAX; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RIB FRACTURES; THORACIC INJURIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 33845707777     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2006.07.006     Document Type: Article

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