Thoracolumbar fracture in blunt trauma patients: Guidelines for diagnosis and imaging

Injury

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 426-433

  Hsu, Jeremy M ^a   Joseph, Tony ^b   Ellis, Andrew M ^b  

^a ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG INTOXICATION; FALLING; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE FRACTURE; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FRACTURES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0037954048     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(02)00368-6     Document Type: Article

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