Abstract

CRUZ CRUZ, Yamila  and  PUPO GONZALEZ, Rolando. Importance of Computed Axial Tomography (CAT) on thoracic traumas. Case presentation. ccm [online]. 2018, vol.22, n.2, pp. 353-360. ISSN 1560-4381.

A 30-year-old male patient with medical records, with a closed thoracic trauma, who was treated at the Emergency Room, after falling from a height, at Holguin´s Clinical Surgical Hospital. Radiological studies not showed pleuroparenchymal and mediastinal lesions. Due to clinical evolution, a thorough physical examination was computerized. Thorax tomography was indicated. Bibasal contusional posttraumatic lesions were detected. Medication, clinical and radiological re-evaluation led to the satisfactory evolution of patient´s clinical picture.

Keywords : computerized axial tomography; thoracic trauma; pulmonary contusion.

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