Some tips and tricks in reading cervical spine radiographs in trauma patients

Journal Belge de Radiologie

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 87-92

  Geusens, E ^a   Van Breuseghem, I ^a   Pans, S ^a   Brys, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Spine, injuries; Spine, radiography

Indexed keywords

CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FRACTURE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OPERATING ROOM; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE INJURY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ATLAS; AXIS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CHILD; DISLOCATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; ODONTOID PROCESS; SPINAL FRACTURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 18844447206     PISSN: 00217646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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