Cervical Spine Trauma: The Common Combined Conditions
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Radiology
- Vol. 130 (1) , 77-86
- https://doi.org/10.1148/130.1.77
Abstract
The two most common groups of combined traumatic conditions of the cervical spine are hyperextension and hyperflexion fracture-dislocations. In a series of 400 patients with fractures and/or dislocations of the cervical spine, 25% had hyperextension and 19% hyperflexion fracture-dislocations. A computer analysis of the cases revealed that there are five distinct types of hyperextension and four types of hyperflexion fracture-dislocations. Each of the types is considered as to incidence, causes, mechanism of injury, and roentgen and differential diagnosis.Keywords
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