Blunt splenic trauma: Delayed-phase CT for differentiation of active hemorrhage from contained vascular injury in patients

Radiology

Volumn 243, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 88-95

  Anderson, Stephan W ^a   Varghese, Jose C ^a   Lucey, Brian C ^a   Burke, Peter A ^a   Hirsch, Erwin F ^a   Soto, Jorge A ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BLUNT TRAUMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EXTRAVASATION; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLEEN HEMATOMA; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLENECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLEEN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 34147196113     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2431060376     Document Type: Article

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