Traumatic atlantooccipital dislocation: Critical review: Diagnosis, classification and treatment, and explanative case report

European Journal of Trauma

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 271-279

  Koller, Heiko ^a   Holz, Ulrich ^a   Assuncao, Allan ^a   Oberst, Michael ^a   Ulbricht, Dietmar ^a  

^a KATHARINENHOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

(AOD); Atlantooccipital dislocation; Cervical spine instability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTHRODESIS; ARTICLE; ATLANTOOCCIPITAL DISLOCATION; ATLANTOOCCIPITAL JOINT; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; JOINT DISLOCATION; JOINT STABILITY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; RANGE OF MOTION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 33746435877     PISSN: 14390590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00068-006-5004-5     Document Type: Article

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