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
• pleural cap
• Verletzungen der Aorta abdominalis

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