Blunt Trauma Abdominal and Pelvic Computed Tomography Has Low Yield for Injuries in More Than One Anatomic Region

INTRODUCTION: Most trauma centers order abdominal and pelvic computed tomography (CT) as an automatically paired CT for adult blunt trauma evaluation. However, excessive CT utilization adds risks of excessive exposure to ionizing radiation, the need to work up incidental findings (leading to unneces...

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Autores principales: Rodriguez, Robert M., Hawthorne, Noah, Murphy, Shelby P., Theus, Marcus, Haase, David, Chuku, Chika, Wen, Jason
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2018
Materias:
Trauma
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6123097/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30202486
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2018.6.37646

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