bachelorThesis
Prevalencia de traumatismo cervical diagnosticado por radiología digital, en pacientes politraumatizados del Departamento de Imagenología, Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso, Cuenca Enero - junio 2012
Fecha
2013-11-11Autor
Nugra Loja, Tania Lorena
Méndez Martínez, Vania Esmeralda
Institución
Resumen
The main objective of this research was to determine the prevalence of cervical trauma; diagnosed by digital radiology in diagnostic applications of multiple trauma patients in the Hospital Imaging Department "Vicente Corral Moscoso" during the period from January to June 2012.
The method used was descriptive, retrospective, the universe studied was 150 applications, the same that were of patients with diagnosis of multiple trauma, so that performed them digital radiographs of the cervical spine during January to June 2012, the 44% were female and the 56 % male. According to the method of study, we can indicate that the 61.0% had injuries at the cervical level, and the 39.0% were studies that reported no change in the normal morphology of the cervical spine.
The most common age of applications in studies is in the rangeof10-40years old, with the lateral radiograph of the cervical spine requested study that occupies97% of the examinations carried out, compared to other tests with minimum percent ages and unrepresentative of only1-2%.
Within the cervical spine in juries were male, shows a frequency of33 cases. Among females seen frequency of28 cases, the percent age shown in representative cervical corrections in the case of females by 56% and in males36.36%, we can also see a percentage of92% corresponding to soft tissue hematoma. The most common site of cervical lesions was a percentage of47.50%in all segments of the cervical spine with a frequency of29 cases.