Blunt cerebrovascular injuries: Does treatment always matter?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 132-143

  Stein, Deborah M ^a,b   Boswell, Sharon ^a   Sliker, Clint W ^a   Lui, Felix Y ^a   Scalea, Thomas M ^a  

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

^b R ADAMS COWLEY SHOCK TRAUMA CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blunt cerebrovascular injury; Carotid artery injury; Diagnosis; Infarction; Treatment; Vertebral artery injury

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; WARFARIN; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; IOHEXOL;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTERY INJURY; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CERVICAL SPINE DISLOCATION; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; COIL EMBOLIZATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FACE FRACTURE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SKULL BASE FRACTURE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINE INJURY; STROKE; THORAX INJURY; THROMBOSIS; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; VERTEBRAL ARTERY INJURY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ADULT; CEREBROVASCULAR TRAUMA; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 67649188774     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318142d146     Document Type: Article

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