Radiologic findings of thoracic trauma

Radiologic findings of thoracic trauma

INTRODUCTION Chest trauma may be blunt or penetrating and the chest is the third most common trauma region. It is a significant cause of mortality. Multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) has been an increasingly used method to evaluate chest trauma because of its high success in detecting tissue and organ injuries. Herein, we aimed to present MDCT findings in patients with blunt and penetrati...

Thoracic manifestation of Churg-Strauss syndrome: radiologic and clinical findings.

STUDY OBJECTIVES To describe the radiologic and clinical findings of Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) and its thoracic manifestations. DESIGN We used retrospective analysis to review and characterize the radiographic, thin-section CT, and clinical findings of CSS. PATIENTS The study involved nine patients with CSS. The patients included four men and five women, whose ages ranged from 18 to 60 y...

Numerical modeling of primary thoracic trauma because of blast

  Purpose: Since explosive blasts continue to cause casualties in both civil and military environments, there is a need for an understanding of the mechanisms of blast trauma at the human organ level, plus a more detailed predictive methodology. The primary goal of this research was to develop a finite element model capable of predicting primary blast injury to the lung so as to assist in the d...

Thoracic trauma

Thoracic Trauma

Thoracic injury directly accounts for 20 to 25% of deaths from trauma, resulting in more than 16,000 deaths annually in the United States. The most common cause of injuries leading to accidental death in the United States is motor vehicle collisions (MVCs) in which immediate deaths are often caused by rupture of the myocardial wall or the thoracic aorta. Early deaths (within the first 30 minute...