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Cervical spine traumatic epidural haematomas: Incidence and characteristics.

Lisa BrichkoBirinder GiddeyJin TeeLouise NiggemeyerMark Christopher Fitzgerald
Published in: Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA (2017)
This study shows a high incidence of CSTEH among trauma patients. CSTEH is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. High clinical vigilance is required to allow the request and acquisition of urgent magnetic resonance imaging to diagnose CSTEH as the entity is often not evident on initial cervical spine computed tomography investigations.
Keyphrases
  • magnetic resonance imaging
  • computed tomography
  • trauma patients
  • risk factors
  • spinal cord
  • positron emission tomography
  • contrast enhanced
  • image quality