The clinical outcome of occult pulmonary contusion on multidetector-row computed tomography in blunt trauma patients

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 387-394

  Deunk, Jaap ^a   Poels, Tielke C ^a   Brink, Monique ^a   Dekker, Helena M ^a   Kool, Digna R ^a   Blickman, Johan G ^b   Van Vugt, Arie B ^c   Edwards, Michael John Richard ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MEDISCH SPECTRUM TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blunt trauma; Computed tomography; Conventional radiography; Occult; Outcome; Pulmonary contusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; LUNG CONTUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTUSIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77249162247     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181a7bdbd     Document Type: Article

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