Whole-Body Imaging in Blunt Multisystem Trauma Patients Who Were Never Examined

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 101-103

  Snyder, Graham E ^a,b  

^a WAKEMED HEALTH AND HOSPITALS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; BLUNT TRAUMA; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION HAZARD; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING; WHOLE BODY CT; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

AGE FACTORS; HUMANS; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 48949119153     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.03.023     Document Type: Editorial

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