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TRAUMATIC BASAL SUBARACHNOID HAEMORRHAGE
Author(s) -
Dymock R. B.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1977.tb99141.x
Subject(s) - diastasis , medicine , subarachnoid haemorrhage , subluxation , anatomy , basal (medicine) , abnormality , surgery , pathology , aneurysm , alternative medicine , psychiatry , insulin
A case of traumatic basal subarachnoid haemorrhage and fractured mandible following a blow to the neck is described. The characteristic findings exhibited were diastasis of the atlanto‐occipital joint with subluxation of the right side of the first cervical vertebra, in the absence of a demonstrable abnormality of the cerebral circulation.