Computed tomography identification of latent pseudoaneurysm after blunt splenic injury: Pathology or technology?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1112-1116

  Weinberg, Jordan A ^a   Lockhart, Mark E ^b   Parmar, Abhishek D ^d   Griffin, Russell L ^c   Melton, Sherry M ^a   Vandromme, Marianne J ^a   McGwin Jr , Gerald ^c   Rue, Loring W ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blunt abdominal trauma; Computed tomography; Pseudoaneurysm; Spleen; Spleen injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLUNT TRAUMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INJURY SEVERITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLENECTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALABAMA; ANEURYSM, FALSE; ARTIFACTS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SPLEEN; SPLENIC ARTERY; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 77952283357     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181d769fc     Document Type: Article

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