CT Scan in Abdominal Emergency Surgery

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Catena, Fausto (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Di Saverio, Salomone (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Ansaloni, Luca (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Coccolini, Federico (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Sartelli, Massimo (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Hot Topics in Acute Care Surgery and Trauma,
• Subjects: Abdominal surgery.; Traumatology.; Interventional radiology .; Emergency medicine.; Abdominal Surgery.; Traumatic Surgery.; Interventional Radiology.; Emergency Medicine.

This book focuses on the diagnostic impact of CT scans in severe abdominal trauma and in non-traumatic acute abdomen, the two clinical entities that constitute the main reasons for referrals for this imaging technique from the intensive care unit. The concept behind it is that emergency surgeons and...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1 Liver Trauma
• 2 Pelvic Trauma
• 3 Spleen Trauma
• 4 Duodeno Pancreatic Trauma
• 5 GI Trauma
• 6 GU Trauma
• 7 Acute cholecystitis
• 8 Acute appendicitis and Meckel diverticula
• 9 Acute diverticulitis
• 10 Complicated peptic ulcer
• 11 Small bowel ischemia
• 12 Acute colon cancer
• 13 ASBO Colon volvulus
• 14 Acute pancreatitis
• 15 AAA and visceral aneuryrsm
• 16 Pelvic inflammatory disease.