PURPOSE: To review the literature and the authors' experience with admission contrast
material-enhanced computed tomography (CT) in patients admitted after blunt trauma. …

PURPOSE: To assess the accuracy of computed tomography (CT) in demonstrating the
presence or absence of peritoneal violation and type of intraperitoneal organ injury, if any, in …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to prospectively examine the accuracy of contrast-enhanced
spiral thoracic computed tomography (CEST-CT) for direct detection of traumatic …

The purpose of this study is to describe CT findings of shock bowel (diffuse abnormality of
the small bowel observed in hypotensive or hypoperfused patients after blunt abdominal …

PURPOSE: To determine if contrast material–enhanced spiral computed tomography (CT)
can be used to select patients with blunt splenic injuries to undergo arteriographic …

PURPOSE: To retrospectively determine what information, if any, magnetic resonance (MR)
imaging of the cervical spine in obtunded and/or “unreliable” patients with blunt trauma adds …

Background Focused abdominal sonography for trauma (FAST) relies on hemoperitoneum
to identify patients with injury. Blunt trauma victims (BTVs) with abdominal injury, but without …

Posttraumatic cerebral infarction is a recognized complication of craniocerebral trauma, but
its frequency, cause, and influence on mortality are not well defined. To ascertain this …

Chest radiography remains the primary screening study for the assessment of victims of
chest trauma, but computed tomography (CT), particularly multidetector CT (MDCT), has …

The purpose of this study was to determine the diagnostic sensitivity and specificity of helical
CT with sagittal and coronal reformatted images in detecting diaphragmatic rupture after …