Spinal cord injury without radiographic abnormality: Results of the national emergency x-radiography utilization study in blunt cervical trauma

Journal of Trauma

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-4

  Hendey, Gregory W ^a   Wolfson, Allan B ^c   Mower, William R ^b   Hoffman, Jerome R ^b  

^a University Medical Center Fresno   (United States)

^b UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical radiography; NEXUS; SCIWORA; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CENTRAL CORD SYNDROME; CERVICAL SPINE; CHILD; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CENTRAL CORD SYNDROME; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CHILD; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL STENOSIS; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0036632264     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-200207000-00001     Document Type: Article

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