2018, Number 2
Correo Científico Médico 2018; 22 (2)
Importance of Computed Axial Tomography (CAT) on thoracic traumas. Case presentation
Cruz CY, Pupo GR
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ABSTRACT
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.