Screening for aortic injury with chest radiography and clinical factors

Emergency Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 211-217

  Kirkham, Jared R ^a   Blackmore, C Craig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic injury; CT scan; Imaging utilization; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; AORTA INJURY; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTOGRAPHY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34548160682     PISSN: 10703004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10140-007-0636-7     Document Type: Article

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