Traumatic avulsion fracture of the occipital condyles and clivus: A case report

Legal Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 49-53

  Imamura, Tohru ^a   Kojima, Tohru ^a   Yashiki, Mikio ^a   Namera, Akira ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clivus; Occipital bone; Occipital condyle; Posterior cranial fossa; Skull fractures; Wounds and injuries

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVULSION FRACTURE; BASILAR ARTERY; CASE REPORT; CLIVUS; HUMAN; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; OCCIPITAL BONE; POSTERIOR FOSSA; SKULL FRACTURE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

EID: 0034008832     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1344-6223(00)80010-3     Document Type: Article

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