Blunt cerebrovascular injury screening with 32-channel multidetector computed tomography: More slices still don't cut it

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 253, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 444-450

  Dicocco, Jennifer M ^a   Emmett, Katrina P ^a   Fabian, Timothy C ^a   Zarzaur, Ben L ^a   Williams, James S ^b   Croce, Martin A ^a  

^a Radiology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; BLUNT CEREBROVASCULAR INJURY; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CRUSH TRAUMA; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; ETHNICITY; FALLING; FEMALE; FEMORAL VESSEL OCCLUSION; FRACTURE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GOLD STANDARD; HEMATOMA; HORNER SYNDROME; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY FAILURE; LE FORT FRACTURE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NECK INJURY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCTURE SITE HEMATOMA; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKULL BASE FRACTURE; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; STROKE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VERTEBRAL ARTERY INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; BRAIN DEATH; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE, TRAUMATIC; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE STANDARDS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951680314     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31820d946b     Document Type: Article

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