Traumatic aortic transections and stents

[Karim Brohi]

Ken,

The quality of this reformat was miserable.  The quality of a 64-slice
well-timed CT is far from miserable, and I would not do an aortogram
unless there was an area of doubt or if the injury involved the arch
or ascending aorta.  However you do obviously do an aortogram at the
start of stent placement anyway - so...

Karim

On 18/10/2007, KMATTOX at aol.com <KMATTOX at aol.com> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 10/18/2007 10:14:41 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
> mgstein at bezeqint.net writes:
>
> The CT,  then becomes a "Screening"
> procedure that is backed by an official  aortogram prior to the actual
> placement of the  stent-graft.
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>
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> The problem is that far too many people are using CT as a DIAGNOSTIC study,
> not just a screening study.
>
> k
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