Second Cervical Vertebrae Pedicle Fractures Versus Synchondrosis in A Child

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 413, Issue , 2003, Pages 238-242

  Grisoni, Nicolas E ^a   Ballock, R Tracy ^b   Thompson, George H ^b,c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FALLING; FEMALE; FRACTURE HEALING; HALO VEST; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; ORTHOSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPINE FRACTURE; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRA BODY; CERVICAL SPINE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; INFANT; INJURY; JOINT INSTABILITY; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; JOINT INSTABILITY; SPINAL FRACTURES;

EID: 0346724679     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000072903.36018.b7     Document Type: Article

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