Frequency and Follow-up of Incidental Findings on Trauma Computed Tomography Scans: Experience at a Level One Trauma Center

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 346-350

  Munk, Marc David ^a   Peitzman, Andrew B ^a   Hostler, David P ^a   Wolfson, Allan B ^a  

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

Author keywords

incidental findings; tomography; trauma; X ray computed

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADRENAL TUMOR; ADRENALOMA; ANEURYSM; AORTA DISEASE; APPENDIX TUMOR; ARTICLE; BLADDER TUMOR; BONE LESION; BONE METASTASIS; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN HEMANGIOMA; BREAST TUMOR; CAROTID ARTERY ANEURYSM; CEREBELLUM TUMOR; CEREBRAL VENOUS ANGIOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIVERTICULOSIS; DUODENUM DISEASE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; KIDNEY CANCER; KIDNEY TUMOR; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG CANCER; LUNG TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENINGIOMA; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARY CYST; OVARY TUMOR; PARADUODENAL HERNIA; PELVIS; PELVIS TUMOR; PLEURA CALCIFICATION; PLEURA DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELONEPHRITIS; REGISTER; RENAL ARTERY ANEURYSM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD LESION; SPLEEN ARTERY ANEURYSM; THORAX; THYROID CALCINOSIS; THYROID DISEASE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MALE; PATIENT DISCHARGE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS;

EID: 77949912317     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2008.01.021     Document Type: Article

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