Items tagged “trauma”

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Orbital blow-out fracture

Orbital blow-out fractures occur when there is a fracture of one of the walls of orbit but the orbital rim remains intact. This is typically caused by a direct blow to the central orbit from a fist or ball. Epidemiology The blow-out fracture is the most common type of orbital fracture and is u...
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Mayfield classification of carpal instability (perilunate instability)

Mayfield classification of carpal instability, also known as perilunate instability classification (carpal dislocations), describes carpal ligament injuries.  Instability has been divided into four stages 1-2: stage I: scapholunate dissociation (rotatory subluxation of the scaphoid) disruptio...
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Coracoclavicular ligament injury

Coracoclavicular (CC) ligament injury is common with shoulder trauma. It is considered part of the spectrum of acromioclavicular joint injuries 2 and is not often an isolated injury. It is also often injured with clavicular fractures.  This injury is easy to miss, especially with the presence o...
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Duodenal hematoma

Duodenal hematoma refers to hematoma formation in the duodenal wall, as the most common site of intramural hematoma of the gastrointestinal tract. Clinical presentation upper GIT obstruction: occurs in insidious onset at least 48 hours after injury. Nearly one-third of the patients present ...
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Extradural hemorrhage

Extradural hematoma (EDH), also known as an epidural hematoma, is a collection of blood that forms between the inner surface of the skull and outer layer of the dura, which is called the endosteal layer. They are usually associated with a history of head trauma and frequently associated skull fr...
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Lipohemarthrosis

Lipohemarthrosis results from an intra-articular fracture with escape of fat and blood from the bone marrow into the joint, and is most frequently seen in the knee, associated with a tibial plateau fracture or distal femoral fracture; rarely a patellar fracture. They have also been described in ...
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AAST liver injury scale

The AAST (American Association for the Surgery of Trauma) liver injury scale, recently revised in 2018, is the most widely used liver injury grading system 3. The 2018 update incorporates "vascular injury" (i.e. pseudoaneurysm, arteriovenous fistula) into the imaging criteria for visceral injur...
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AAST kidney injury scale

The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) renal injury scale, most recently updated in 2018, is the most widely used grading system for renal trauma. The 2018 update incorporates "vascular injury" (i.e. pseudoaneurysm, arteriovenous fistula) into the imaging criteria for viscera...
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Thoracic aortic injury

Thoracic aortic injury is the most common type of traumatic aortic injury and is a critical life-threatening, and often life-ending event.  Clinical presentation Approximately 80% of patients with thoracic aortic injury die at the scene of the trauma. In those who make it to hospital, clinical...
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Elbow joint effusion - sail sign

  Diagnosis certain
Frank Gaillard
Published 07 May 2008
80% complete
CT X-ray
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Gunshot wound to humerus

  Diagnosis certain
Frank Gaillard
Published 20 May 2008
75% complete
X-ray
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Fracture dislocation of middle finger

  Diagnosis certain
Frank Gaillard
Published 26 May 2008
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X-ray
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Frontal scalp laceration

  Diagnosis certain
Frank Gaillard
Published 21 Jun 2008
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MRI
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Caroticocavernous fistula (direct)

  Diagnosis certain
Frank Gaillard
Published 10 Jul 2008
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DSA (angiography)
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Spinal fracture dislocation - L1

  Diagnosis certain
Frank Gaillard
Published 12 Sep 2008
75% complete
CT MRI
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Complete disc and ligamentous disruption

  Diagnosis certain
Frank Gaillard
Published 19 Sep 2008
59% complete
CT
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Gunshot wound to head

  Diagnosis certain
Frank Gaillard
Published 26 Nov 2008
62% complete
CT
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Diffuse axonal injury

  Diagnosis almost certain
Frank Gaillard
Published 18 Dec 2008
74% complete
MRI
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Renal vascular pedicle injury

Renal vascular pedicle injury  is a severe form of renal trauma, which if not recognized and treated expediently, can lead to the loss of the kidney.  Radiographic features CT Contrast enhanced CT is the Imaging modality of choice. On CT it is recognized as a non-enhancing kidney. Perirenal h...
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Ruptured globe

  Diagnosis certain
Frank Gaillard
Published 06 Jan 2009
68% complete
CT