[PDF] Top 20 Role of Multidetector CT in Evaluation of Polytrauma Patients

... [10] Wurmb, T.E., Frühwald, P., Hopfner, W., Keil, T., Kredel, M., Brederlau, J., et al. (2009) Whole-Body Multislice Computed Tomography as the First Line Diagnostic Tool in Patients with Multiple Injuries: The ... See full document

... axial CT and MPR images. First, virtual cystoscopy is superior in evaluation of the mucosal surface of the bladder and therefore can detect superficial lesions missed by source CT images or MPR ... See full document

... The role of MDCT is to differentiate between benign and malig- nant gastric neoplasm and determine the stage and gastric spread of gastric car- cinoma, which is vital in choosing between palliative or radical ... See full document

... in patients with SAH, especially after head ...these patients are comatose and often sedated, obvious clinical signs of VBS are likely to be masked, enhancing the need for an accurate and reliable means of ... See full document

... adult patients presenting to the emergency department with IPH, who were evaluated with MDCTA during a 9-year ...period. CT angiograms were reviewed by 2 neuroradiologists to determine the IPH site and the ... See full document

... Such patients also had normal CT/MR imaging examination findings or a relevant brain stem or subcortical hemispheric lesion with a diameter of ⬍ ...asymptomatic patients were studied in ... See full document

... all patients who pre- sented at our hospital with clinical signs and symptoms suggestive of a thrombotic occlusion of the cerebral veins or sinuses between June 2002 and December ...unenhanced CT, MDCTA, ... See full document

... ral CT scanners, patients were unable to comply with dynamic ...spiral CT in the evaluation of head and neck lesions, scanning times ranged from 24 to 36 seconds (a significant improvement ... See full document

... arteries, evaluation for pulmonary thromboembolism can be incomplete, which can lead to misdiagnosis of pulmonary thromboembolism when no thromboembolism is present ...pediatric patients who had Fontan ... See full document

... included patients examined be- tween 2008 and ...these patients had no clavicular fracture. Consecutive patients that were diagnosed and treated in 2011 were included in the control group, named ... See full document

... The CT scans of the enrolled patients were evaluated by two readers with different degrees of experience in abdominal CT scan ...an evaluation of the scan for the presence or absence of ... See full document

... clinical patients, because to our knowledge, this has not been evaluated in the previous ...perform CT angiography at 80 kV(p) in high CT dose index volumes (48 and 53 mGy) be- cause of a technical ... See full document

... the patients usually present with advanced tumors at the moment of diagnosis and when the tumors are small sized, they are misdiagnosed as chronic sinusitis, nasal polyp, lacrimal duct obstruction, or even cranial ... See full document

... of patients’ coronary atherosclerosis. During the scanning, patients were told to hold their breath until the end of the scanning to make sure there was little respiratory motion ...addition, ... See full document

... of patients with few comorbid medical ...on patients on other psychotropics (eg, antidepressants or antipsychotic medications) or cardiovascular agents that may accentuate the AE profile of ... See full document

... Currently, histopathologic analysis is necessary to ac- curately assess the response to NAC. PET imaging has been proposed to improve diagnostic strategies in cancer patients by identification of primary tumors ... See full document

... This study was conducted at a single office with a single calibrated ORA for accuracy. A single technician, who has done the test in over 20,000 cases in the past 2 years, performed the test in this study. Maintaining a ... See full document

... betic patients have a mortality of more than 30% after suffering polytrauma and an increased overall mortality even when matched against age and ...in polytrauma, OR of 1.64, P <0.05. Diabetic ... See full document

... some patients results in a shift of carbohydrates into the colon, and why these side effects decrease with ...that patients with fiber-rich nutritional habits usually have at most only physiological ... See full document

... the evaluation of the various categories and was used as the crite- rion standard for the comparison with ...the evaluation of the supratentorial subarachnoidal space, ACT proved to be diagnostic in ... See full document