title: MR imaging of thoracic trauma.
abstract: Although MR imaging and MR angiography should not be considered a primary study for patients sustaining blunt or penetrating thoracic trauma, it has achieved importance as an ancillary problem-solving modality. In general, the authors have found MR imaging to be a useful ancillary study to confirm or exclude diaphragm injury, if spiral CT scan with reformations are equivocal; to help assess the aorta and mediastinum in cases of potential injury that are not clarified by CT scan or thoracic angiography; and to identify the true origin of trauma-related masses that may simulate thoracic neoplasms.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA. smirvis@radiology.ab.umd.ed
authors.forename: S E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Mirvis
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shanmuganathan
mesh_terms: D001011:Aorta / Q000293:injuries / Q000473:pathology; D003964:Diaphragm / Q000293:injuries; D006801:Humans; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D012421:Rupture; D013898:Thoracic Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed