Imaging findings of avalanche victims

Skeletal Radiology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 515-521

  Grosse, Alexandra B ^a   Grosse, Claudia A ^a   Steinbach, Lynne S ^b   Zimmermann, Heinz ^a   Anderson, Suzanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asphyxia; Avalanche victims; Hypothermia; Injury patterns

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN INJURY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSENSUS; DISASTER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; MUSCULOSKELETAL INJURY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOLOGIST; SKIING; SPINE FRACTURE; SPORT INJURY; THORAX INJURY; VICTIM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUNTAINEERING; NATURAL DISASTERS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SNOW; SWITZERLAND; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 34248683248     PISSN: 03642348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00256-006-0259-1     Document Type: Article

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