Blunt craniocervical artery injury in cervical spine lesions: The value of CT angiography

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 152, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1679-1686

  Fleck, Steffen Kristian ^a   Langner, Soenke ^a   Baldauf, Joerg ^a   Kirsch, Michael ^a   Rosenstengel, Christian ^a   Schroeder, Henry W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blunt craniocervical vascular injury; Cervical spine injury; CT angiography; Duplex ultrasound; Neck trauma; Vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

IODIXANOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; CERVICAL SPINE DISLOCATION; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; WHOLE BODY CT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID ARTERY INJURIES; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK INJURIES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL INJURIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR SYSTEM INJURIES; VERTEBRAL ARTERY DISSECTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78149415094     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-010-0685-7     Document Type: Article

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