Vascular emergencies of the thorax after blunt and iatrogenic trauma: Multi-detector row CT and three-dimensional imaging

Radiographics

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1239-1255

  Alkadhi, Hatem ^a   Wildermuth, Simon ^a   Desbiolles, Lotus ^a   Schertler, Thomas ^a   Crook, David ^a   Marincek, Borut ^a   Boehm, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b KANTONSSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arteries, injuries, 56.126, 94.126, 56.40, 94.40; Computed tomography (CT), multi detector row, 50.12116, 94.12916; Heart, interventional procedures, 51.126, 51.40; Interventional procedures, complications, 50.126, 94.126, 50.40, 94.40

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA INJURY; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTERY RUPTURE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BLUNT TRAUMA; BREATHING; CANNULATION; CENTRAL VEIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRAIN; EHLERS DANLOS SYNDROME; EMBOLISM; EMERGENCY; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FOREIGN BODY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MULTI DETECTOR ROW COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; PATIENT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SWAN GANZ CATHETER; TECHNIQUE; THORAX; THORAX INJURY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VASCULAR DISEASE;

EID: 4944255838     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.245035728     Document Type: Article

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