Blunt traumatic injuries of the lung parenchyma, pleura, thoracic wall, and intrathoracic airways: Multidetector computer tomography imaging findings

Emergency Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 297-310

  Sangster, Guillermo P ^a   González Beicos, Aldo ^b   Carbo, Alberto I ^a   Heldmann, Maureen G ^a   Ibrahim, Hassan ^a   Carrascosa, Patricia ^c   Nazar, Miguel ^c   D'Agostino, Horacio B ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Department of Computed Tomography   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Blunt trauma; Chest; Multidetector computed tomography

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAPHRAGM RUPTURE; FLAIL CHEST; FRACTURE; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG CONTUSION; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PLEURA; PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIB FRACTURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX WALL; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAPHRAGM; FLAIL CHEST; HEMOTHORAX; HUMANS; LUNG; PLEURAL CAVITY; PNEUMOTHORAX; RIB FRACTURES; STERNUM; THORACIC INJURIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 34848850095     PISSN: 10703004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10140-007-0651-8     Document Type: Review

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