Intraoperative angiography to prevent vertebral artery injury during reduction of a dislocated hangman fracture. Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 97, Issue 3 SUPPL., 2002, Pages 355-358

  Takahashi, Toshiyuki ^a   Tominaga, Teiji ^a   Ezura, Masayuki ^a   Sato, Kiyotaka ^a   Yoshimoto, Takashi ^a  

^a KOHNAN HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Axis; Hangman fracture; Intravascular occlusion; Locked facet; Vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTERY INJURY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; AXIS; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRACTURE DISLOCATION; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL ARTERIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; AXIS; CEREBROVASCULAR TRAUMA; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DISLOCATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; SPINAL FRACTURES; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 0036774253     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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