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Imaging is now at the forefront of trauma care. The days of a limited CT sometimes hours after injury have been replaced by rapid imaging involving plain film, ultrasound and CT. There is now increasing evidence pertaining to trauma imaging with a proven reduction in mortality with the use of rapid CT [1].
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Gay, D., Gibb, I. (2017). Radiology and Ballistic Trauma. In: Breeze, J., Penn-Barwell, J., Keene, D., O'Reilly, D., Jeyanathan, J., Mahoney, P. (eds) Ballistic Trauma. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61364-2_10
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