Klippel-Feil syndrome - The risk of cervical spinal cord injury: A casereport

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-5

  Vaidyanathan, Subramanian ^a   Hughes, Peter L ^a   Soni, Bakul M ^a   Singh, Gurpreet ^a   Sett, Pradipkumar ^a  

^a District General Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECTOPIC KIDNEY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; KLIPPEL FEIL SYNDROME; MALE; QUADRIPLEGIA; CHORISTOMA; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FALLING; INJURY; KIDNEY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE MALFORMATION SYNDROME; RADIOGRAPHY;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ACCIDENTAL FALLS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CHORISTOMA; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KLIPPEL-FEIL SYNDROME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUADRIPLEGIA;

EID: 3342898216     PISSN: 14712296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-3-6     Document Type: Article

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