Ability of a chest X-ray and an abdominal computed tomography scan to identify traumatic thoracic injury

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 200, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 741-745

  Barrios Jr , Cristobal ^a   Pham, Jacqueline ^a   Malinoski, Darren ^a   Dolich, Matthew ^a   Lekawa, Michael ^a   Cinat, Marianne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal CT scan; Blunt chest trauma; Blunt thoracic trauma; Hemothorax; Occult thoracic injury; Pneumothorax; Pulmonary contusion; Rib fracture; Thoracic CT scan

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AORTA INJURY; ARTICLE; CLAVICLE FRACTURE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; FEMALE; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PILOT STUDY; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIB FRACTURE; SPINE FRACTURE; SURVIVAL RATE; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX INJURY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AORTA, THORACIC; CONTUSIONS; FEMALE; HEMOTHORAX; HUMANS; LUNG INJURY; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RIB FRACTURES; THORACIC INJURIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 78650183535     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2010.08.004     Document Type: Article

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