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Radiological Evaluation of Cervical Spine Trauma

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This chapter focuses on the various imaging strategies for the evaluation of trauma to the cervical spine. We provide a review of the various fractures that occur in the cervical spine and give highlights of what to look for when reviewing the images.

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  1. Department of Neuroradiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

    Christian Rahbek, Ronni Mikkelsen & Vibeke Fink-Jensen

  2. Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

    Ronni Mikkelsen

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

    Terje Sundstrøm

  2. Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden

    Per-Olof Grände

  3. Department of Neurosurgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

    Teemu Luoto

  4. Department of Neurosurgery, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark

    Christina Rosenlund

  5. Department of Operation and Intensive Care, Halmstad Hospital, Halmstad, Sweden

    Johan Undén

  6. Department of Clinical Medicine K1, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

    Knut Gustav Wester

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Rahbek, C., Mikkelsen, R., Fink-Jensen, V. (2020). Radiological Evaluation of Cervical Spine Trauma. In: Sundstrøm, T., Grände, PO., Luoto, T., Rosenlund, C., Undén, J., Wester, K. (eds) Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39383-0_18

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