Neurovascular Interventions in the Trauma Patient

Charles E. Ray Jr; Walter L. Biffl

doi:10.1055/s-2002-36750

Seminars in Interventional Radiology, Table of Contents

Semin intervent Radiol 2002; 19(4): 377-388
DOI: 10.1055/s-2002-36750

Neurovascular Interventions in the Trauma Patient

Charles E. Ray, Jr.¹ , Walter L. Biffl²

¹Interventional Radiology, Denver Health Medical Center, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado
²Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Rhode Island Hospital and Department of Surgery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Traumatic injury continues to present a challenge to the health care system in the United States, accounting for more deaths in children and young adults than any other cause. Neurological trauma accounts for almost one half of all traumatic deaths. Interventional radiological techniques, particularly embolization, can serve as definitive and life-saving measures in many circumstances. This article reviews diagnostic angiographic techniques and findings, as well as interventions, in the neurological trauma population.

KEYWORD

Trauma - neurointervention - angiography

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