Spine trauma

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 129-163

  Looby, Seamus ^a   Flanders, Adam ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical; Lumbar; Spine; Thoracic; Trauma

Indexed keywords

LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ATLANTOAXIAL DISLOCATION; BRACE; BURST FRACTURE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; CHANCE FRACTURE; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; COMPRESSION GARMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FRACTURE; FRACTURE DISLOCATION; FRACTURE IMMOBILIZATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INJURY SCALE; JOINT HYPERMOBILITY; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; LOWER CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACRAL SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE INJURY; SPINE MOBILITY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; UPPER CERVICAL SPINE INJURY;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL FRACTURES; SPINAL INJURIES; SPINE; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78649412717     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2010.07.019     Document Type: Review

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