Pictorial review of radiographic patterns of injury in modern warfare: imaging the conflict in Afghanistan
| Autor: | Ed R. Peramaki |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Projectiles Explosions Wounds Penetrating Modern warfare Hospitals Military Bullets Blast Injuries Medicine Combat injuries Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Shrapnel IEDs Afghan Campaign 2001 business.industry Afghanistan General Medicine Multislice computed tomography medicine.disease Surgery Antitank weapons Military Personnel Barotrauma Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Wounds and Injuries Improvised explosive devices Medical emergency Artillery business Radiology Tomography X-Ray Computed |
| Zdroj: | Canadian Association of Radiologists journal = Journal l'Association canadienne des radiologistes. 62(2) |
| ISSN: | 0846-5371 |
| Popis: | Radiographic assessment of combat injuries has been an important component of casualty care in every major conflict of the 20th and 21st centuries. The advent of multislice computed tomography scanners has provided physicians with the ability to visualize organ injury at submillimetre resolution, changing the way war wounds are treated. Modern wars are, for the most part, asymmetric conflicts where improvised explosive devices have replaced artillery as a major cause of casualties. Both bullets and explosive devices wreak distinctive patterns of injury on the human body. Being able to recognize these patterns and their potential associated morbidities will allow medical personnel to provide expert and timely care to some of the most severely injured patients on earth. This series of pictorial essays will review the radiographic patterns of combat-related injury encountered in southern Afghanistan in 2008–2009. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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