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Asymmetric odontoid process following high-speed road traffic accident
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A patient who sustained a flexion/lateral bending cervical spine injury presented with an asymmetric odontoid process. The asymmetry was confirmed on computed tomography (CT) and shown on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to be due to a unilateral alar ligament injury. The finding …
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2009 Emergency Medicine Journal