Occipital condyle fractures in children: Case report and review of the literature

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 265-270

  Momjian, S ^a   Dehdashti, A R ^a   Kehrli, P ^b   May, D ^a   Rilliet, Bénédiet ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b HÔPITAL DE HAUTEPIERRE   (France)

Author keywords

Child; Head injury; Occipital condyle fractures

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BONE INJURY; BONE PAIN; BRAIN STEM INJURY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CRANIAL NERVE; CRANIAL NERVE INJURY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; NECK PAIN; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OCCIPITAL BONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPORT INJURY; TRAFFIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL BONE; SKULL FRACTURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 0037262137     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000069825     Document Type: Article

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