Isolated fractures of the atlas in adults

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

ATLAS; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; FRACTURE FIXATION; IMMOBILIZATION; LIGAMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINE FUSION; CLINICAL PATHWAY; EVALUATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; INJURY; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; SPINE FRACTURE; STANDARD;

ATLAS; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; LIGAMENTS, ARTICULAR; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL FUSION;

EID: 0036490796     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-200203001-00020     Document Type: Review

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