Imaging Pearls ❯ Trauma ❯ Chest
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- Vascular Emergencies of the Chest Post Trauma
- Aortic rupture (complete and incomplete)
- Traumatic aortic dissection
- Aortic dissection and rupture
- Traumatic acute intramural hematoma
- Pseudoaneurysm
- Catheter related injuries
- Foreign body embolization - “ Multirow CT angiography is a fast,safe and noninvasive imaging technique. In combination with two and three dimensional postprocessing techniques, it often clarifies complex vascular and nonvascular anatomy.”
Vascular Emergencies of the Thorax after Blunt and Iatrogenic Trauma: Multidetector Row CT and Three Dimensional Imaging
Alkadhi H et al.
RadioGraphics 2004:24:1239-1255