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Terrorist bombings: foreign bodies from the Boston Marathon bombing
John Brunner1, Ajay K Singh2, Tatiana Rocha3
1Department of Radiology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; Department of Radiology, Brigham and Woman's Hospital, Boston, MA.
Seminars in Ultrasound, CT, and MR
|February 3, 2015
Abstract:
On April 15, 2013, 2 improvised explosive devices detonated at the 117th Boston Marathon, killing 3 people and injuring 264 others. In this article, the foreign bodies and injuries that presented at 2 of the responding level 1 trauma hospitals in Boston-Brigham and Women׳s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital--are reviewed with a broader discussion of blast injuries and imaging strategies.