Isolated transverse process fractures of the subaxial cervical spine: A clinically insignificant injury or not?: A prospective, longitudinal analysis in a consecutive high-energy blunt trauma population

Spine

Volumn 35, Issue 19, 2010, Pages

  Schotanus, Maaike ^a   Van Middendorp, Joost J ^a   Hosman, Allard J F ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cervical trauma; isolated transverse process fractures; subaxial cervical spine; transverse process

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINE STABILIZATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROMETRY, ARTICULAR; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL FRACTURES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956409307     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181c9464e     Document Type: Article

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