Motion artifact on computed tomography scan suggesting an unstable 3-column spine injury: case report of a "near miss" root cause of unneeded surgery

BACKGROUND: Polytrauma patients often present with altered mental status, thus making clinical examination challenging. Due to its reliability for detecting traumatic injuries to the spine, computed tomography (CT) is generally the imaging study of choice when the mechanism of injury and/or prelimin...

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Autores principales: Patel, Sunny H, Moore, Timothy A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4176191/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24274703
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1754-9493-7-35

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4176191/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24274703
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1754-9493-7-35

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