Clinical assessment following acute cervical spinal cord injury

Neurosurgery

Volumn 72, Issue SUPPL.2, 2013, Pages 40-53

  Hadley, Mark N ^a   Walters, Beverly C ^a,c   Aarabi, Bizhan ^d   Dhall, Sanjay S ^f   Gelb, Daniel E ^e   Hurlbert, R John ^g   Rozzelle, Curtis J ^b   Ryken, Timothy C ^h   Theodore, Nicholas ⁱ  

^a Division of Orthopaedic Surgery   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c BETTY AND GUY BEATTY CENTER FOR INTEGRATED RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

ⁱ BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical assessment; Functional outcome; Neurological examination; Pain assessment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATIENT CARE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; HUMANS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL INJURIES; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 84874367194     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e318276edda     Document Type: Article

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