Blunt traumatic aortic injury

Traumatic aortic injury (TAI) is most often caused by blunt trauma (referred to as BTAI) and is best described in terms of injury location, type and severity:

• abdominal aortic injury
• aortic pseudoaneurysm
• thoracic aortic injury
• minimal aortic injury

See traumatic aortic injury in the exam.

Related Radiopaedia articles

Aortic pathology

• acute aortic syndrome
  • aortic dissection
    • Stanford classification
    • DeBakey classification
  • penetrating aortic ulcer
  • intramural hematoma
• aortic aneurysms
  • thoracic aortic aneurysm
    • aortic root dilatation
      • annulo-aortic ectasia
    • ascending aorta dilatation
    • thoracic aortic dilatation (differential)
  • abdominal aortic aneurysm
    • aortic aneurysmal rupture
    • aorto-caval fistula
    • aorto-enteric fistula
    • aorto-left renal vein fistula
    • inflammatory abdominal aortic aneurysm
      • syphilitic (luetic) aneurysm
    • signs
      • draped aorta sign
      • high-attenuation crescent sign
      • tangential calcium sign
      • thrombus fissuration
  • endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR)
  • reporting tips for aortic aneurysms
• inflammatory
  • aortitis
    • ​chronic periaortitis
    • isolated periaortitis
  • aorto-iliac occlusive disease
• congenital
  • aortic coarctation
    • figure 3 sign
  • aortic pseudocoarctation
  • cervical aortic arch
  • interrupted aortic arch
  • transposition of the great arteries
    • D-loop transposition of the great arteries
    • L-loop transposition of the great arteries
  • variant anatomy of the aortic arch
    • ductus diverticulum
    • Kommerell diverticulum
• traumatic aortic injury
  • abdominal aortic injury
  • aortic pseudoaneurysm
  • thoracic aortic injury
  • minimal aortic injury
• miscellaneous
  • causes of ascending aorta calcification
  • causes of a small aorta
  • coral reef aorta
  • intra-aortic balloon pump
  • thoracic aortic stenosis (differential)

Siehe auch:

• adult chest radiograph common exam pathology
• thorakale Aortenverletzungen
• Normale Herzkonfiguration im Röntgen-Thorax
• adult chest radiograph set-pieces
• chest radiograph in the exam setting
• Verletzungen der Aorta abdominalis
• pleural cap

und weiter:

• Aortenruptur
• Thoraxtrauma
• endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR)
• endovaskuläre Therapie des Bauchaortenaneurysmas
• blunt traumatic aortic injury in a traumatized child
• blunt traumatic intramural aortic hematoma
• blunt traumatic dissection and thrombosis of the celiac artery extending from a diaphragmatic aortic lesion
• intramurales Hämatom der Aorta