Prevertebral hematoma in cervical spine injury: incidence and etiologic significance
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Incidence and Etiologic Significance
In a consecutive series of 30 hospitalized cervical injury patients, 18 proved to have widening of the prevertebral soft tissue space due to hematoma. The upper limit of normal width in 50 noninjury patients was used as a reference. Hematoma almost exclusively manifested at C1-C4 and proved to be closely related to fractures of anterior elements of the spine. Relatively small hematomas were enc...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Roentgenology
سال: 1981
ISSN: 0361-803X,1546-3141
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.136.3.553