
CT Case 070
A 50-year-old unrestrained male passenger involved in a high speed MVA is brought in by the pre-hospital team to your emergency department after a 60-minute retrieval time.
A 50-year-old unrestrained male passenger involved in a high speed MVA is brought in by the pre-hospital team to your emergency department after a 60-minute retrieval time.
Abdominal CT: Trauma series. Case study to review of the major patterns of solid organ injury identified on abdominal CT.
Abdominal CT: Trauma series. Imaging renal, ureter, and adrenal injuries
Abdominal CT: Trauma series. Diagnosing spleen, liver, and pancreatic injuries
A 36-year-old male is involved in a motorbike accident while travelling at 60km/hr. He is intubated on scene by the retrieval team for decreased GCS.
Sir Charles Alfred Ballance (1856-1936) was an English surgeon. Ballance's (triad) sign (1898) for diagnosing splenic rupture
Splenic trauma may result from blunt or penetrating abdominal injury. The spleen is the most commonly injured organ in blunt abdominal trauma