TY - JOUR AU - Nakama, Rakuhei AU - Yamamoto, Ryo AU - Izawa, Yoshimitsu AU - Tanimura, Keiichi AU - Mato, Takashi PY - 2021 DA - 2021/01/07 TI - Serum D-dimer level as a biomarker for identifying patients with isolated injury to prevent unnecessary whole-body computed tomography in blunt trauma care JO - Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine SP - 12 VL - 29 IS - 1 AB - Unnecessary whole-body computed tomography (CT) may lead to excess radiation exposure. Serum D-dimer levels have been reported to correlate with injury severity. We examined the predictive value of serum D-dimer level for identifying patients with isolated injury that can be diagnosed with selected-region CT rather than whole-body CT. SN - 1757-7241 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13049-020-00815-9 DO - 10.1186/s13049-020-00815-9 ID - Nakama2021 ER -