@article{ref1,
title="Cervical spine injury in patients with facial skeletal trauma",
journal="Journal of trauma",
year="1989",
author="Birdsell, D. C. and Davidson, James S.",
volume="29",
number="9",
pages="1276-1278",
abstract="The records of 2,555 patients admitted to hospital with facial fractures were reviewed for concomitant neck injury. Cervical spine injury occurred in 1.3% of all patients with facial fractures, the incidence rising to 5.5% with facial fractures resulting only from MVA's. Neck injuries occurred most frequently in the setting of MVA's (85%) and multisystem trauma (70%) and tended to involve two main levels of the cervical spine: C2 (31%) and the two lower cervical vertebrae C6 and C7 (50%). Examination of the pattern of cervical spine injury with respect to the pattern of facial skeletal injury does not support the premise of a direct causal relation between them.",
language="",
issn="0022-5282",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}