Background: Kings College Hospital is a level 1 trauma centre, based in a culturally diverse
area where interpersonal violence and self inflected injuries are rife. In the maxillofacial
directorate we see self inflicted injuries to the neck and those resulting from interpersonal
violence which pose a diagnostic and definitive treatment challenge. Current practice
dictates a CT angiogram for any penetrating neck injury (PNI) which breaches the platysma.
We wish to review the efficacy of this management.
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