Occipital condyle fractures

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

BLUNT TRAUMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; LIGAMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL BONE; PAIN; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKULL FRACTURE; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL PATHWAY; EVALUATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; INJURY; PATHOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINE FRACTURE; STANDARD;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL BONE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKULL FRACTURES; SPINAL FRACTURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036490993     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-200203001-00019     Document Type: Review

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