Incidental CT findings of patients who admitted to ER following a traffic accident

Turkiye Acil Tip Dergisi

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 9-14

  Yigit, Yavuz ^a   Ayhan, Harun ^b  

^a Derince Training and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

^b GATA HAYDARPASA TRAINING HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Incidental findings; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ACCESSORY SPLEEN; ACCIDENTAL INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISEASE; ARACHNOID CYST; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BONE LESION; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CHILD; CHOLELITHIASIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIVERTICULOSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMANGIOMA; HEPATOMEGALY; HIATUS HERNIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INCIDENTAL FINDING; INFANT; KIDNEY CYST; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NEWBORN; OVARY CYST; PARANASAL SINUS DISEASE; SINUS ABNORMALITY; SPLENOMEGALY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VERY ELDERLY;

EID: 84898883462     PISSN: 13047361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5505/1304.7361.2014.13284     Document Type: Article

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