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By Pierre Schnyder MD, Max Wintermark MD (auth.)

ISBN-10: 3642571824

ISBN-13: 9783642571824

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In industrialized international locations, traumas signify the 3rd prime explanation for demise, after cardiovascular ailments and cancers. Thoracic constructions are inquisitive about as much as 30% of blunt traumas. wisdom of many of the radiological styles of blunt chest trauma is hence vital for all radiologists, intensivists, and different physicians fascinated with trauma care. This publication is designed to satisfy this want. It presents a scientific overview of all points of the radiology of blunt trauma of the chest. so much radiological styles defined within the literature in addition to a few new ones are comprehensively illustrated utilizing a picture facts dossier spanning greater than 10 years. specific emphasis is put on correlation among the result of a few of the emergency imaging modalities: traditional radiology, computed tomography, ultrasonography and angiography.

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A free pleural air collection outlines the aortic knob, the pulmonary artery and the left cardiac border. The extension of this air collection cranially beyond the pericardial reflection allows to differentiate it from a pneumopericardium Fig. 3. Subpulmonary pneumothoraces (arrows) in two trauma patients, featuring a crescentic or b curvilinear lucencies outlining the upper aspect of the diaphragm. b In the second patient, associated subcutaneous and muscular emphysema is an indication of rib fractures, although the latter are not identified on the plain film V a b 48 M.

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