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Computed tomography (CT) has been shown to be increasingly useful in the evaluation of blunt trauma patients with suspected abdominopelvic vascular injuries. CT findings of abdominopelvic vascular insult may be broadly characterized as end-organ abnormalities or direct evidence of vascular injury. End-organ abnormalities implying an underlying vascular insult include identifying an area of relative hypoperfusion in solid organ injury. Direct evidence of a vascular injury includes identifying an irregular or thrombosed vessel or an area of active hemorrhage, among other findings. This review article aims to review and illustrate these findings of blunt abdominopelvic vascular trauma. Also, evolving lessons from our level I trauma center in the use of multiphasic imaging to further characterize sources of a vascular blush and the differentiation of arterial from venous sources of active hemorrhage are discussed.
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Vu, M., Anderson, S.W., Shah, N. et al. CT of blunt abdominal and pelvic vascular injury. Emerg Radiol 17, 21–29 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10140-009-0813-y
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