Imaging Trauma and Polytrauma in Pediatric Patients
This book provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of the role of diagnostic imaging in the assessment and management of trauma and polytrauma in children. The coverage includes imaging of injuries to the head, thorax, abdomen, bone and musculoskele
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Vittorio Miele Margherita Trinci Editors
Imaging Trauma and Polytrauma in Pediatric Patients
Vittorio Miele • Margherita Trinci Editors
Imaging Trauma and Polytrauma in Pediatric Patients
Editors Vittorio Miele Department of Emergency Radiology S. Camillo Hospital Rome Italy
Margherita Trinci Department of Emergency Radiology S. Camillo Hospital Rome Italy
ISBN 978-3-319-08523-4 ISBN 978-3-319-08524-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-08524-1 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London
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To Giacomo and Chiara, Vittorio and Carlo
Foreword
Over the past two decades, there has been a change in the conception of emergency and trauma radiology. The increasing awareness that appropriate and rapid therapeutic action in life-threatening situations result from the skillful interpretation of emergency radiologists in dedicated radiology facilities has led to the identification of emergency radiology as distinct specialty of diagnostic imaging. Cross-sectional imaging with computed tomography (CT), ultrasound (US) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays a pivotal role in the evaluation of trauma patients, especi
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