Is chest X-ray an adequate screening tool for the diagnosis of blunt thoracic aortic injury?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1088-1092

  Ekeh, Akpofure Peter ^a,b   Peterson, Wylan ^a   Woods, Randy J ^a   Walusimbi, Mbaga ^a   Nwuneli, Nancy ^a   Saxe, Jonathan M ^a   McCarthy, Mary C ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIAMI VALLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Blunt thoracic aortic injury; Chest X ray; Computerized tomography with angiography; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AORTA INJURY; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIB FRACTURE; SCREENING; SURGEON; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; BLUNT TRAUMA; INJURY; MASS SCREENING; RADIOGRAPHY; THORACIC AORTA; THORAX INJURY;

ADULT; AORTA, THORACIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; THORACIC INJURIES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 67650586598     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31812f60bf     Document Type: Article

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