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Symptomatic intracranial abscess after treating lower cervical spine fracture with halo vest: a case report and review of literature

We present the case of a nineteen year old male, who sustained a fracture of anterior-superior surface of C7, combined with anterior subluxation at the level of C6–C7 vertebrae. After x-ray and CT examination, he was treated conservatively by a Halo-vest. After mobilization, the patient was discharg...

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Autores principales: Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios S, Kontovazenitis, Panagiotis, Kokkinis, Konstantinos, Efstathopoulos, Nikolaos, Korres, Dimitrios
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2639568/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19178714
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-101