Optimizing multidetector CT for visualization of splenic vascular injury. Validation by splenic arteriography in blunt abdominal trauma patients

Emergency Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 307-312

  Atluri, Sumanth ^a   Richard III, Howard M ^a   Shanmuganathan, Kathirkamanathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer tomography; Splenic embolization; Splenic trauma

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COIL EMBOLIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLEEN ANGIOGRAPHY; SPLEEN INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM, FALSE; ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIATRIZOATE; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLENIC ARTERY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 80052475498     PISSN: 10703004     EISSN: 14381435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10140-011-0961-8     Document Type: Article

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