TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1989//
TI  - Cervical spine injury in patients with facial skeletal trauma
JO  - Journal of trauma
A1  - Birdsell, D. C.
A1  - Davidson, James S.
SP  - 1276
EP  - 1278
VL  - 29
IS  - 9
N2  - 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.
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SN  - 0022-5282
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -