Lung parenchymal injury and its frequency in blunt thoracic trauma: The diagnostic value of chest radiography and thoracic CT

Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 179-182

  Elmali, Muzaffer ^a   Baydin, Ahmet ^a   Nural, Mehmet Selim ^a   Arslan, Bora ^a   Ceyhan, Meltem ^a   Gürmen, Nevzat ^a  

^a ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Blunt thorax trauma; Chest radiograph; Computed tomography, thoracic; Lung contusion; Lung injury

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LACERATION; LUNG CONTUSION; LUNG INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM; PNEUMOTHORAX; PREDICTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIB FRACTURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRAUMATIC HEMATOMA; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX INJURY; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORACIC INJURIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TURKEY;

EID: 38449105606     PISSN: 13053825     EISSN: 13053612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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