Risk factors predicting mortality after blunt traumatic cervical fracture

Injury

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1437-1441

  Pull ter Gunne, Albert F ^a   Aquarius, Annelies E ^a,b   Roukema, Jan Anne ^a  

^a CPRLab   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Risk factors mortality blunt trauma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL FRACTURES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56949094910     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2008.03.008     Document Type: Article

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