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Images in emergency medicine
Pointing the wrong way? A subtle finding on cervical plain films
  1. Hugo De Sao Jose Martinho De Oliveira,
  2. Hunniya Waseem,
  3. Deborah Mayne
  1. Emergency Department, Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Poole, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Hugo De Sao Jose Martinho De Oliveira, Emergency Department, Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Longfleet Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 2JB, UK; hugo.oliveira{at}doctors.net.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2013-203475

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    • Contributors The relevant individuals have been acknowledged in the authorship. HDSJMDO assessed the patient in the ED and requested the radiographs. HW helped HDSJMDO in the interpretation of the radiographs and further management of the patient. DM helped HDSJMDO and HW in writing the manuscript.

    • Competing interests None.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.