Epidemiology of thoracolumbar spine injury in blunt trauma

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 866-872

  Holmes, James F ^a,b,c   Miller, Paul Q ^a,b,c   Panacek, Edward A ^a,b,c   Lin, Steven ^a,b,c   Horne, Nathanael S ^a,b,c   Mower, William R Mower ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Injury; Lumbar spine; Radiography; Thoracic spine

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE INJURY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SPINAL INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0034843211     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2001.tb01146.x     Document Type: Article

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