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In which we learn to recognize, describe, and detect injuries from the cervical spine to the toes. The focus is on diagnosing trickier and often over looked radiographic manifestations of trauma. A few salient MRI findings are touched upon. We start at the head and continue down to the toes touching upon most traumatic findings you are likely to encounter not only from day to day but also throughout your deployment. A series of self-assessment cases is provided at the end to test your observations and absorption of the skills and knowledge stressed in the chapter.

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