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ArticleJournal of emergencies, trauma, and shock2012

The epidemiological findings and characteristic ground glass appearance on chest CT among patients with blunt lung injury.

Youichi Yanagawa, Toshihisa Sakamoto

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Article in Journal of emergencies, trauma, and shock, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Youichi YanagawaDepartment of Traumatology and Critical Care Medicine, National Defense Medical College, 3-2 Namiki Tokorozawa Saitama, Japan.
Toshihisa Sakamoto
National Defense Medical College · JP

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aimTo clarify the epidemiological findings and characteristics of ground glass lesions on chest computed tomography (CT) after blunt trauma. SETTING AND

designA medical college hospital and retrospective study. MATERIALS AND

methodsWe retrospectively investigated all blunt chest trauma patients who were admitted from January 2004 to December 2010. The inclusion criteria were patients with: (1) chest CT examination on arrival, (2) intrathoracic traumatic lesions confirmed by initial CT, and (3) a second chest CT examination within 7 days from admission. We divided the subjects into two groups. A GG group included subjects who had ground glass lesions on initial chest CT and a control group included subjects who did not have the ground glass appearance.

resultsThe average age in the GG group was significantly lesser than that in the control group. The ratio of improvement for the value of SpO(2)/FiO(2) between on arrival and the second hospital day and ratio of improvement for CT findings between on arrival and the second CT examination in the GG group was greater than in the control group.

conclusionThe ground glass appearance on chest CT after blunt trauma was not rare, and the patients with ground glass lesions were younger and tended to have a better improvement of oxygenation and CT images in comparison with the patients without these characteristic lesions.

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Blunt lung injuryCTedemaground glass appearance

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PMCPMC3440890
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