Acute spinal injury

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 334, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 514-520

  Chiles III, Bennie W ^a   Cooper, Paul R ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

AIRWAY; BROWN SEQUARD SYNDROME; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; IMAGING; IMMOBILIZATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MYELOGRAPHY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPINE INJURY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINAL INJURIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 0030057469     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199602223340807     Document Type: Review

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