Vertebral artery trauma

American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 206-217

  Opeskin, Kenneth ^a   Burke, Michael P ^a  

^a VICTORIAN INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC MEDICINE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Injury; Trauma; Vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTERY INJURY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLUNT TRAUMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FALLING; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MALE; SACCULAR ANEURYSM; SPORT INJURY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUICIDE; SURVIVAL TIME; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 0031721210     PISSN: 01957910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000433-199809000-00002     Document Type: Article

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