- Screening CT Angiography for Pediatric Blunt Cerebrovascular Injury with Emphasis on the Cervical “Seatbelt Sign”
The authors investigated the significance of several clinical and imaging risk factors, most specifically the “cervical seatbelt sign,” in the anterior neck in pediatric patients with suspected blunt cerebrovascular injury as seen by CTA. They found that this common indication for neck CTA was not associated with blunt cerebrovascular injury. With the exception of Glasgow Coma Scale score, no single risk factor was statistically significant in predicting vascular injury.