Tomographic aspects of penetrating thoracic trauma: injuries from firearms and other weapons.

Objective: The aim of this study was to analyze the various computed tomography findings in penetrating chest trauma, as well as to determine the frequency and extent of the lesions.

Material And Methods: We studied the computed tomography findings from 40 cases of penetrating thoracic trauma, of which 35 (85.8%) were gunshot wounds and 5 (14.

[Traumatic chest lesions. Computed tomography findings].

Trauma is nowadays one of the most common causes of death and traumatic thoracic lesions are important agravant to trauma patients. In this work the aspects of computed tomography from 200 cases of thoracic trauma were studied. Lung lesions predominated, found in 192 cases (96%), manifested as contusions in 178 cases (89%), atelectasis in 41 cases (20.