Seizure-induced muscle force can caused lumbar spine fracture

Acta Chirurgiae Orthopaedicae et Traumatologiae Cechoslovaca

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 202-205

  Mehlhorn, Alexander T ^a,b   Strohm, P C ^a   Hausschildt, O ^a   Schmal, H ^a   Sudkamp N P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; COLECALCIFEROL; PHENYTOIN; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BITE; BONE DENSITY; BONE MINERAL; CASE REPORT; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DISORIENTATION; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; LAMINECTOMY; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MICTURITION; MUSCLE FORCE; OSTEOPENIA; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE INSTABILITY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPONDYLODESIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TONGUE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPINAL FRACTURES;

EID: 34447252590     PISSN: 00015415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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