Correlation of C2 fractures and vertebral artery injury

Spine

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Ding, Tao ^a   Maltenfort, Mitchell ^b   Yang, Huilin ^a   Smith, Harvey ^b   Ratliff, John ^b   Vaccaro, Alexander ^b   Greg Anderson, D ^b   Harrop, James ^b  

^a THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Axis fracture; Cervical fracture; Magnetic resonance angiography; Vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTERY INJURY; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE DISLOCATION; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DATA BASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VERTEBRAL ARTERY INJURY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXIS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 77953023009     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181cd98b6     Document Type: Article

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