Severity of cervical spine ligamentous injury correlates with mechanism of injury, not with severity of blunt head trauma

American Surgeon

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 261-265

  Albrecht, Roxie M ^a   Malik, Salman ^b   Kingsley, Darra D ^b   Hart, Blaine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN INJURY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; LIGAMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPINE INJURY;

ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LIGAMENTS, ARTICULAR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPINAL INJURIES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0037362661     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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