ALLMedicine™ Neck Trauma Center

Feb 9th, 2021 - Retropharyngeal hematoma is a potentially life-threatening condition because it can easily lead to airway obstruction. Most of the previously reported cases of retropharyngeal hematoma are caused by predisposing factors such as head and neck traum...

Feb 3rd, 2021 - Respiratory dysfunction resulting from unilateral diaphragmatic paralysis during neck trauma is very rare in adults. We describe the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of 1 patient with chronic respiratory insufficiency, in whom the diaphragmatic p...

Dec 31st, 2020 - Penetrating neck trauma comprises 5%-10% of all traumatic injuries in adults and carries up to a 10% mortality rate for those affected. Management of penetrating neck trauma can be challenging and often requires a multidisciplinary approach. A cas...

Dec 30th, 2020 - Hypoxic respiratory failure in an adolescent after blunt neck trauma.|2020|Vega C,Patel N,Gonik N,Sethuraman U,|

Sep 7th, 2020 - Despite being common, neck injuries have received relatively little attention for important quality of care metrics. This study sought to determine the association between blunt and penetrating neck injuries on mortality and length of stay, and to...

Oct 31st, 2017 - In patients with penetrating neck injuries with clinical soft injury signs, and patients with hard signs of injury who do not require immediate surgery, CT angiography of the neck is the preferred imaging procedure to evaluate extent of injury. Ot.

Feb 9th, 2021 - Retropharyngeal hematoma is a potentially life-threatening condition because it can easily lead to airway obstruction. Most of the previously reported cases of retropharyngeal hematoma are caused by predisposing factors such as head and neck traum...

Feb 3rd, 2021 - Respiratory dysfunction resulting from unilateral diaphragmatic paralysis during neck trauma is very rare in adults. We describe the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of 1 patient with chronic respiratory insufficiency, in whom the diaphragmatic p...

Dec 31st, 2020 - Penetrating neck trauma comprises 5%-10% of all traumatic injuries in adults and carries up to a 10% mortality rate for those affected. Management of penetrating neck trauma can be challenging and often requires a multidisciplinary approach. A cas...

Dec 30th, 2020 - Hypoxic respiratory failure in an adolescent after blunt neck trauma.|2020|Vega C,Patel N,Gonik N,Sethuraman U,|

Sep 7th, 2020 - Despite being common, neck injuries have received relatively little attention for important quality of care metrics. This study sought to determine the association between blunt and penetrating neck injuries on mortality and length of stay, and to...

Nov 26th, 2017 - Dissection normally occurs in the extracranial segment of the epiaortic vessels. The internal carotid artery is affected more often than the vertebral artery.[2] Dissections can be classified as traumatic or spontaneous. Traumatic dissections are ...

Aug 19th, 2014 - Action Points This editorial suggests that the high-sensitivity of MRI may lead to clinically irrelevant diagnoses when the modality is used to evaluate cervical tenderness after trauma. The study under discussion examined outcomes in patients who...

Feb 25th, 2014 - SAN DIEGO – Eleven of every 100,000 patients younger than 50 years who were seen for traumatic injury developed an ischemic stroke within 4 weeks, a study of data on 1. 3 million people found.