Diagnosis and management of traumatic atlanto-occipital dislocation injuries

Neurosurgery

Volumn 50, Issue 3 SUPPL., 2002, Pages

  Hadley, Mark N ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHRODESIS; ATLANTOOCCIPITAL JOINT; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; JOINT DISLOCATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; TRACTION THERAPY; X RAY; CLINICAL PATHWAY; DISLOCATION; EVALUATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; INJURY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATHOLOGY; SPINE INJURY; STANDARD;

ATLANTO-OCCIPITAL JOINT; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; DISLOCATIONS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; SPINAL INJURIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036490505     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-200203001-00018     Document Type: Review

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