The increasing use of chest computed tomography for trauma: Is it being overutilized?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 631-635

  Plurad, David ^a   Green, Donald ^a   Demetriades, Demetrios ^a   Rhee, Peter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA INJURY; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CHEST COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY; LUNG CONTUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIB FRACTURE; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; THORACIC INJURIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS;

EID: 34147124102     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31802bf009     Document Type: Article

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