Can initial clinical assessment exclude thoracolumbar vertebral injury?
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Can initial clinical assessment exclude thoracolumbar vertebral injury?
INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that all blunt trauma patients, presenting with a Glasgow coma scale (GCS) score of 15, without intoxication or neurological deficit, and no pain or tenderness on log-roll can have any thoracolumbar fracture excluded without imaging. MATERIALS AND METHODS All patients diagnosed with a thoracolumbar fracture presenting to the emerge...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine Journal
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1472-0205,1472-0213
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2011-201085