Bilateral vertebral artery lesion after dislocating cervical spine trauma: A case report

Spine

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1375-1380

  Wirbel, Reiner ^a,b   Pistorius, Georg ^a   Braun, Christoph ^a   Eichler, Andreas ^b   Mutschler, Wolf ^a  

^a Abdominal and Vascular Surgery   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

cervical spine trauma; fracture dislocation; vertebral artery injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY INJURY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE DISLOCATION; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; MALE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPORT INJURY; VERTEBRAL ARTERIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; DISLOCATIONS; HUMANS; MALE; NECK; SPINAL INJURIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 0030025764     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-199606010-00020     Document Type: Article

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