Imaging of thoracic and lumbar spine fractures

Seminars in Spine Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 8-19

  Anderson, Mark W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Imaging; Injury; Lumbar; Spine; Thoracic

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; BURST FRACTURE; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FLEXION DISTRACTION; FRACTURE DISLOCATION; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUMBAR SPINE FRACTURE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; THORACIC SPINE FRACTURE;

EID: 77952882812     PISSN: 10407383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semss.2009.10.003     Document Type: Article

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