Limiting thoracic CT: a rule for use during initial pediatric trauma evaluation

Despite increases in imaging guidelines for other body-regions during initial trauma assessment and the demonstrated utility of chest radiographs (CXR), guidelines for use of thoracic computed-tomography (TCT) are lacking. We hypothesized that TCT utilization had not decreased relative to other prot...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of pediatric surgery 2017-12, Vol.52 (12), p.2031-2037
Hauptverfasser:	Stephens, Caroline Q., Boulos, Meredith C., Connelly, Christopher R., Gee, Arvin, Jafri, Mubeen, Krishnaswami, Sanjay
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Chest X-ray Pediatric blunt trauma Thoracic CT Thoracic trauma
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