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Case report| Volume 22, ISSUE 2, P158-159, March 1991

An alarming degree of posterior dislocation in fracture of the odontoid process without important neurological injury

  • R. Das-Gupta
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    Surgical Unit, The London Hospital, Whitechapel, London, UK
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DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-1383(91)90085-S
An alarming degree of posterior dislocation in fracture of the odontoid process without important neurological injury
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      Accepted: June 16, 1990

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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-1383(91)90085-S

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      © 1991 Published by Elsevier Inc.

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