Isolated ligamentous cervical spinal injury in the polytrauma patient with a head injury

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 99-104

  Weinberg, L ^a   Hiew, C Y ^a   Brown, D J ^a   Lim, E J ^a   Hart, G K ^a  

^a AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cervical spine; Magnetic resonance imaging; Spinal cord injury; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL INJURY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CERVICAL SPINE DISLOCATION; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE SEVERITY; FACE FRACTURE; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; QUADRIPLEGIA; SPINE FUSION; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE STABILIZATION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ADULT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; COMA; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; LIGAMENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; SPINAL FRACTURES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33847382041     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0310057x0703500115     Document Type: Article

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