Chest Trauma

  • Yoram Ben-Menachem
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Abstract

Usually the first x-ray film obtained in all emergency admissions, the chest film is cheap, noninvasive, and repeatable, and every physician thinks he/she can read it. Despite its importance to the diagnostic process, the chest film is severely limited in the amount of information it can offer (1). This is especially evident in massive injuries, where chest radiography is often limited to a solitary, supine, anteroposterior, shortdistance chest film. Therefore, the radiographic techniques used should be of a high enough quality to permit assessment of the lungs, pleurae, and mediastinum on first reading. Additional views of the chst are obtained only if the patients’ condition allows. Their usefulness, if any, in the assessment of skeletal and soft tissue wounding will be discussed under the appropriate headings

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Thoracic Aorta Blunt Trauma Compute Tomog Chest Trauma Innominate Artery 
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