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Use of diffusion-weighted MRI in the emergency department for unconscious trauma patients with negative brain CT
Abstract
Diffusion-weighted MRI, a type of MR technique that can distinguish between cerebral fat embolism and diffuse axonal injury, is presented in this report. Emergency physicians should consider using diffusion-weighted imaging in unconscious trauma patients when their brain CT scans are unremarkable.
- Embolism
- fat
- diffuse axonal injury
- diffusion magnetic resonance imaging
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