Epidemiology of traumatic spinal fractures: Experience from medical university-affiliated hospitals in Chongqing, China,2001-2010:Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 459-468

  Wang, Hongwei ^a   Zhang, Yuan ^a   Xiang, Qiang ^b   Wang, Xuke ^a   Li, Changqing ^a   Xiong, Hongyan ^a   Zhou, Yue ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Prevention; Spinal cord injury; Spinal fracture; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; CHILD; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FALLING; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK INJURY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE INJURY; THORACIC SPINE; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; THORAX INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACCIDENTS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL FRACTURES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84868338895     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: 15475646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2012.8.SPINE111003     Document Type: Review

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