منابع مشابه
Delayed Traumatic Tetraplegia.
intervertebral joints, with contusion of the cord by the neural arch at the moment of injury, and that spontaneous reduction accounted for the subsequent normal radiographic appearances. This theory was criticised by Cramer and McGowan (1944), and Barnes (1948) showed that a posterior dislocation in flexion that was capable of spontaneous reduction did not produce sufficient narrowing of the sp...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Spinal Cord
سال: 1976
ISSN: 1362-4393,1476-5624
DOI: 10.1038/sc.1976.6