Cervical spine injury in children: a case report and literature review

Traumatic injuries of the cervical spine are less common in children than in adults. But may be associated with significant disability and mortality. Pediatric victims of blunt trauma have mechanisms of injury, developmental and anatomic characteristics different than the adults. The purpose of this...

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Autores principales: Nebhani, Tahir, Bakkali, Hicham, Belyamani, Lahcen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4484334/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26161184
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2015.20.261.6071
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author Nebhani, Tahir
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description Traumatic injuries of the cervical spine are less common in children than in adults. But may be associated with significant disability and mortality. Pediatric victims of blunt trauma have mechanisms of injury, developmental and anatomic characteristics different than the adults. The purpose of this observation is to highlight the differences between the adult and pediatric cervical spine. We report below the case of spinal cord cut occurs to a very young girl after a motor vehicle accident.
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spelling pubmed-44843342015-07-09 Cervical spine injury in children: a case report and literature review Nebhani, Tahir Bakkali, Hicham Belyamani, Lahcen Pan Afr Med J Case Report Traumatic injuries of the cervical spine are less common in children than in adults. But may be associated with significant disability and mortality. Pediatric victims of blunt trauma have mechanisms of injury, developmental and anatomic characteristics different than the adults. The purpose of this observation is to highlight the differences between the adult and pediatric cervical spine. We report below the case of spinal cord cut occurs to a very young girl after a motor vehicle accident. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2015-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4484334/ /pubmed/26161184 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2015.20.261.6071 Text en © Tahir Nebhani et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Cervical spine injury in children: a case report and literature review
title_fullStr Cervical spine injury in children: a case report and literature review
title_full_unstemmed Cervical spine injury in children: a case report and literature review
title_short Cervical spine injury in children: a case report and literature review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4484334/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26161184
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2015.20.261.6071
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