"Blush" on trauma computed tomography: Not as bad as we think!

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 580-586

  Michailidou, Maria ^a   Velmahos, George C ^a   Van Der Wilden, Gwen ^a   Alam, Hasan B ^a   De Moya, Marc ^a   Chang, Yuchiao ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

blush; Computed tomography; contrast extravasation; trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIUM EXTRAVASATION; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS CONTRAST EXTRAVASATION; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPERITONEUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SOFT TISSUE; SPLEEN INJURY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; EXTRAVASATION OF DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC MATERIALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84865955922     PISSN: 21630755     EISSN: 21630763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318265cbd4     Document Type: Article

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