Management of odontoid fractures

Orthopedics

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 911-916

  Marchesi, Dante G ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; ODONTOID PROCESS; ODONTOID PROCESS FRACTURE; REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE SCREWS; BONE WIRES; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, CLOSED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODONTOID PROCESS;

EID: 0030831616     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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