caa a22 4500 606171967 CHVBK 20210128100726.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10140-015-1322-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10140-015-1322-9 Head and neck injuries from the Boston Marathon bombing at four hospitals [Elektronische Daten] [Ajay Singh, Karen Buch, Edward Sung, Hani Abujudeh, Osamu Sakai, Sodickson Aaron, Michael Lev] The aim of this study was to evaluate the imaging findings of head and neck injuries in patients from the Boston Marathon bombing. A total of 115 patients from the Boston Marathon bombing presenting to four hospitals who underwent imaging to evaluate for head and neck injuries were included in the study. Twelve patients with positive findings on radiography or cross-sectional imaging were included in the final analysis. The radiographic, computed tomography (CT), and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging features of these patients were evaluated for the presence of shrapnel and morphological abnormality. Head and neck injuries were seen in 12 out of 115 patients presenting to the four hospitals. There were secondary blast injuries to the head and neck in eight patients, indicated by the presence of shrapnel on imaging. In the four patients without shrapnel, there were two with subgaleal hematomas, one with facial contusion and one with mastoid injury. There were two patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage, one with brain contusion, one with cerebral laceration, and one with globe rupture. There was frontal bone, nasal bone, and orbital wall fracture in one patient each. Imaging identified 26 shrapnel fragments, 21 of which were ball bearings. Injuries to the head and neck region identified on imaging from the Boston Marathon bombing were not common. The injuries seen were predominantly secondary blast injuries from shrapnel, and did not result in calvarial penetration of the shrapnel fragments. American Society of Emergency Radiology, 2015 Blast injury nationallicence Boston Marathon bombing nationallicence Shrapnel nationallicence Singh Ajay Division of Emergency Radiology, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 2 Avery Street, 32H, 02141, Boston, MA, USA aut Buch Karen Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, Boston Medical Center, 02118, Boston, MA, USA aut Sung Edward Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 02141, Boston, MA, USA aut Abujudeh Hani Division of Emergency Radiology, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 2 Avery Street, 32H, 02141, Boston, MA, USA aut Sakai Osamu Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, Boston Medical Center, 02118, Boston, MA, USA aut Aaron Sodickson Division of Emergency Radiology, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Woman's Hospital, 02141, Boston, MA, USA aut Lev Michael Division of Emergency Radiology, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 2 Avery Street, 32H, 02141, Boston, MA, USA aut Emergency Radiology Springer Berlin Heidelberg 22/5(2015-10-01), 527-532 1070-3004 22:5<527 2015 22 10140 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10140-015-1322-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10140-015-1322-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Singh Ajay Division of Emergency Radiology, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 2 Avery Street, 32H, 02141, Boston, MA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Buch Karen Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, Boston Medical Center, 02118, Boston, MA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sung Edward Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 02141, Boston, MA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Abujudeh Hani Division of Emergency Radiology, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 2 Avery Street, 32H, 02141, Boston, MA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sakai Osamu Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, Boston Medical Center, 02118, Boston, MA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Aaron Sodickson Division of Emergency Radiology, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Woman's Hospital, 02141, Boston, MA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lev Michael Division of Emergency Radiology, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 2 Avery Street, 32H, 02141, Boston, MA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Emergency Radiology Springer Berlin Heidelberg 22/5(2015-10-01), 527-532 1070-3004 22:5<527 2015 22 10140