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Trauma of the Pulmonary Parenchyma

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Radiology of Blunt Trauma of the Chest

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Abstract

Pulmonary lesions are very common in blunt chest trauma patients [2, 4,18, 21]. Their incidence varies depending on whether they are defined clinically or radiologically: on computed tomographic (CT) examinations, pulmonary contusions are present in up to 70% of blunt chest trauma patients involved in motor vehicle accidents [2, 4, 18, 49] .

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Wintermark, M., Duvoisin, B., Schnyder, P. (2000). Trauma of the Pulmonary Parenchyma. In: Radiology of Blunt Trauma of the Chest. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57182-4_5

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