Traumatic pneumomyelography: A marker of spinal column injury in the face of innocuous spine fractures: Two case reports

Spine

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1283-1286

  Gertzbein, Stanley D ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Pneumomyelogram; Spinal fracture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GAS; HUMAN; MALE; MYELOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE INJURY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRAL CANAL;

ADULT; AIR; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELOGRAPHY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL FRACTURES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032101777     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-199806010-00022     Document Type: Article

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