Original contributionED use of flexion-extension cervical spine radiography in the evaluation of blunt trauma☆
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2017, Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and TraumaCitation Excerpt :In the case of persistent discomfort from one week onwards after an injury there may be a role for elective flexion extension radiographs.72 CT can, though rarely, miss instability after cervical trauma and this may be demonstrated by flexion/extension views (Fig. 3).73,74 This may also be applied to paediatric patients.75
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Presented in part at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, New England Regional Meeting, Providence, RI, April 1997, the American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly and Research Forum, San Francisco, CA, October 1997, and Trauma Tactics, Orlando, FL, April 1998.