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Incidence of traumatic carotid and vertebral artery dissections: results of cervical vessel computed tomography angiogram as a mandatory scan component in severely injured patients

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the true incidence of cervical artery dissections (CeADs) in trauma patients with an Injury Severity Score (ISS) of ≥16, since head-and-neck computed tomography angiogram (CTA) is not a compulsory component of whole-body trauma computed tomography (CT)...

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Autores principales: Schicho, Andreas, Luerken, Lukas, Meier, Ramona, Ernstberger, Antonio, Stroszczynski, Christian, Schreyer, Andreas, Dendl, Lena-Marie, Schleder, Stephan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5790094/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29416344
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/TCRM.S148176