Internal decapitation: Survival after head to neck dissociation injuries

Spine

Volumn 33, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 1744-1749

  Ben Galim, Peleg J ^a,b   Sibai, Tarek A ^b   Hipp, John A ^a   Heggeness, Michael H ^a   Reitman, Charles A ^a  

^a Department of Orthopedic Surgery ^*  (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Head to neck dissociation; MRI; Occipitocervical dissociation; Soft tissue spinal injury; Upper neck injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATLANTOOCCIPITAL JOINT; ATLANTOOCCIPITAL JOINT DISSOCIATION; BRACE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECAPITATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEAD; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; JOINT INJURY; MALE; NECK; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SOFT TISSUE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPINE SURGERY; SURVIVAL; SWELLING; CERVICAL SPINE; HEAD INJURY; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NECK INJURY; OCCIPITAL BONE; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DECAPITATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK INJURIES; OCCIPITAL BONE; RESEARCH DESIGN; SURVIVAL;

EID: 58149136285     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31817bb0e0     Document Type: Article

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