Imaging of spinal trauma

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-12

  Bagley, Linda J ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN DEGENERATION; CERVICAL SPINE; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LIGAMENT; LUMBAR SPINE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SOFT TISSUE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL PAIN; SPINE INJURY; SPINE INSTABILITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THORACIC SPINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHIPLASH INJURY;

EID: 27744512688     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2005.08.004     Document Type: Review

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