Spinal injury patterns resulting from car and motorcycle accidents

Spine

Volumn 27, Issue 24, 2002, Pages 2825-2830

  Robertson, Angus ^a,b   Branfoot, Toby ^a   Barlow, Ian F ^a   Giannoudis, Peter V ^a  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automobile trauma; Motorcycle trauma; Spinal injury

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINE INJURY; THORACIC SPINE; THORAX INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MOTORCYCLES; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0037115234     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-200212150-00019     Document Type: Article

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