From the Division of Trauma and Critical Care (K.I.), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; the Division of Emergency Radiology (F.M., L.R.) and Division of Trauma and Critical Care (M.M., H.B.), Ryder Trauma Center, University of Miami, Miami, Florida; the Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical Care (M.D.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; and the Department of Surgery (S.C.), University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas.
Submitted for publication February 3, 2006.
Accepted for publication March 30, 2006.
Presented at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Western Trauma Association, February 22–28, 2005, Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
Address for reprints: Kenji Inaba, MD, FRCSC, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, LAC+USC Medical Center, 1200 North State Street 10-750, Los Angeles, CA 90033; email: [email protected].
