Incidental findings on total-body CT scans in trauma patients

Injury

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 840-844

  Sierink, J C ^a   Saltzherr, T P ^a   Russchen, M J A M ^a   De Castro, S M M ^a   Beenen, L F M ^a   Schep, N W L ^a   Goslings, J C ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computed Tomography; Incidental findings; Injury; Total body CT; Trauma

Indexed keywords

IOVERSOL;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADRENAL CORTEX ADENOMA; ADRENAL CYST; ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; ADRENAL INCIDENTALOMA; ADRENAL TUMOR; ADULT; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; BONE CYST; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; BRAIN CYST; BRAIN HEMANGIOMA; CARDIOMEGALY; CHOLELITHIASIS; COMMON BILE DUCT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; FALLING; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; FOLLICLE CYST; FOLLOW UP; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INCIDENTAL FINDING; INJURY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; KIDNEY CALCIFICATION; KIDNEY TUMOR; LIVER CYST; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPHADENOPATHY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; OVARY CYST; PANCREAS CALCIFICATION; PANCREAS TUMOR; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PLEURA PLAQUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; SYMPTOM; THYROID NODULE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UMBILICAL HERNIA; UTERUS MYOMA; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ADULT; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84896394956     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: 18790267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2013.10.009     Document Type: Article

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