Incidence of blunt craniocervical artery injuries: Use of whole-body computed tomography trauma imaging with adapted computed tomography angiography

Neurosurgery

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 615-623

  Fleck, Steffen K ^a   Langner, Soenke ^a   Baldauf, Joerg ^a   Kirsch, Michael ^a   Kohlmann, Thomas ^a   Schroeder, Henry W S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiography; Blunt craniocervical vascular injury; Cervical spine injury; Computed tomography; Computed tomography angiography; Neck trauma

Indexed keywords

ADAPTED COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERY INJURY; ARTICLE; BLUNT CRANIOCERVICAL ARTERY INJURY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SKULL FRACTURE; WHOLE BODY CT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA, NERVOUS SYSTEM; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051801916     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e31821a8701     Document Type: Article

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