Contemporary treatment of spinal cord injury

Neurosurgery Quarterly

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 138-153

  Lee, Thomas T ^a   Singh, Ran Vijay P ^a   Manzano, Glen R ^a   Green, Barth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fracture; Spinal cord injury; Spinal trauma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DETERIORATION; EMERGENCY WARD; FRACTURE DISLOCATION; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INJURY SCALE; ODONTOID PROCESS FRACTURE; OSTEOPOROSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYRINGOMYELIA; TETHERED CORD SYNDROME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 2442720649     PISSN: 10506438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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