Open AccessMechanism and patterns of cervical spine fractures-dislocations in vertebral artery injury
Author(s) -
Pankaj Gupta,
Atin Kumar,
Shivanand Gamangatti
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of craniovertebral junction and spine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 0976-9285
pISSN - 0974-8237
DOI - 10.4103/0974-8237.110118
Subject(s) - medicine , cervical spine , vertebral artery , mechanism (biology) , spine (molecular biology) , surgery , radiology , bioinformatics , philosophy , epistemology , biology
To identify the fracture patterns and mechanism of injury, based on subaxial cervical spine injury classification system (SLIC), on non-contrast computed tomography (NCCT) of cervical spine predictive of vertebral artery injury (VAI).