Blunt splenic injury: use of a multidetector CT-based splenic injury grading system and clinical parameters for triage of patients at admission.

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To assess the use of a dual-phase multidetector computed tomography (CT)-based grading system alone and in combination with assessment of clinical parameters at triage of patients with blunt splenic injury for determination of appropriate treatment (observation, splenic artery embolization [SAE], or splenic surgery).

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Radiology

Title: Radiology

Publisher: Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)

ISSN (Electronic): 1527-1315

ISSN (Print): 0033-8419

Publication date (Electronic): Mar 2015

Volume: 274

Issue: 3

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[1 ] From the Department of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand (N.S.); Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine (K.S., H.R., S.E.M.), Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (H.H.C.), and R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center (J.M., T.M.S.), University of Maryland School of Medicine, 22 S Greene St, Baltimore, MD 21201; Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, University of Texas-Houston, Houston, Tex (J.J.D.); and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, St Mary's Hospital, London, England (M.A.K.).

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DOI: 10.1148/radiol.14141060

PubMed ID: 25474179

SO-VID: bd952118-5539-46c8-80a2-3cbc79629a8e

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