Radiographic clearance of blunt cervical spine injury: Plain radiograph or computed tomography Scan?

Journal of Trauma

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 222-227

  Griffen, Margaret M ^a   Frykberg, Eric R ^a   Kerwin, Andrew J ^a   Schinco, Miren A ^a   Tepas, Joseph J ^a   Rowe, Kathleen ^b   Abboud, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical spine; Cervical spine radiographs; CT scan

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; BLUNT TRAUMA; CERVICAL SPINE DISLOCATION; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; GENDER; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL INJURIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0042821748     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000083332.93868.E2     Document Type: Article

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