Items tagged “trauma”
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Modified Memphis criteria for blunt cerebrovascular injury
The modified Memphis criteria are a set of screening criteria for blunt cerebrovascular injury (BCVI) in trauma. The presence of one or more of these criteria makes necessary a complementary CTA or DSA study to exclude a BCVI.
The screening protocol criteria for BCVI are:
base of skull fractur...
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Denver criteria for blunt cerebrovascular injury
The Denver criteria are a set of screening criteria used to determine when CT angiography of the neck is indicated to detect blunt cerebrovascular injury (BCVI) in patients presenting after trauma.
Screening criteria
The Denver criteria were initially developed in 1996 1, modified in 2005 to ...
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Normal pelvis x-ray (trauma supine)
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18 Dec 2015
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Pear-shaped bladder with bladder neck leak
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19 Dec 2015
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Extrapleural hematoma
Extrapleural hematomas are uncommon and usually seen in the context of rib fracture, subclavian venous catheter traumatic insertion, and blunt chest injury.
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Extrapleural hematomas result from the accumulation of blood in the extrapleural space where the overlying extrapleural fat is ...
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Normal chest x-ray (trauma supine)
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29 Dec 2015
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High-velocity penetrating brain injury
High-velocity penetrating brain injuries, in practical terms most often due to cranial gunshot injuries, are a form of penetrating traumatic brain injuries, which are much less common than blunt traumatic brain injuries and distinguished from low-velocity penetrating brain injuries (such as stab...
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Complications of petrous temporal bone fracture (mnemonic)
A handy mnemonic to recall the complications of transverse and longitudinal petrous temporal bone fractures is:
Listen Carefully To Something Funny
Mnemonic
listen carefully = longitudinal / conductive hearing loss
to something funny = transverse / sensorineural hearing loss and facial nerve...
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Penetrating traumatic brain injury
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08 Jan 2016
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Thoracic spine fracture-dislocation
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20 Jan 2016
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Pancreatic laceration
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30 Jan 2016
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Heimlich valve and hemopneumothorax
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30 Jan 2016
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Splenosis
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14 Feb 2016
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Trauma films (summary approach)
This is a basic article for medical students and other non-radiologists
Trauma films are ubiquitous in an orthopedic attachment and also in the Emergency Department.
In most cases, a trauma film will come with two views. It is important that you review both films because in some cases a fractu...
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Baumann angle
Baumann angle, also known as the humeral-capitellar angle, is used for the evaluation of the displacement of pediatric supracondylar humeral fractures. It is measured on a frontal radiograph, with elbow in extension.
This angle is formed by the humeral axis and a straight line through the epiph...
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Monteggia fracture-dislocation
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08 Apr 2016
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Atlanto-occipital dislocation
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30 Apr 2016
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Neck trauma injury zones (diagram)
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30 Apr 2016
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Fracture navicular bone
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05 May 2016
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First metatarsophalangeal joint anatomy
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16 May 2016
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