Classification and surgical decision making in acute subaxial cervical spine trauma

Spine

Volumn 35, Issue 21 SUPPL., 2010, Pages

  Patel, Alpesh A ^a   Hurlbert, R John ^b   Bono, Christopher M ^c   Bessey, Jason T ^d   Yang, Nuo ^d   Vaccaro, Alexander R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adult; cervical spine; classification; fracture; spinal cord injury; trauma; treatment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE SURGERY; SUBAXIAL CERVICAL SPINE INJURY;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL INJURIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957993324     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181f330ae     Document Type: Article

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