CT aortography of thoracic aortic rupture.

摘要: Emergent aortography is commonly used to confirm and define a suspected thoracic aortic rupture detected by CT screening. We evaluated whether helical can replace transcatheter for critically injured patients.Over 22 months, 38 aorta great vessel injuries were in 3229 patients with nontrivial blunt chest trauma who underwent Planar, oblique, curved two-dimensional reconstructions three-dimensional shaded-surface display maximum intensity projection volume-rendering techniques evaluate the injuries. Transcatheter or surgery was performed all stable patients.Twenty-eight of involved descending aorta. All such best identified on axial images before angiography. angiography adequately showed tears over 15 mm long. Smaller required corroboration.Technically adequate detects defines thor...