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Case report| Volume 22, ISSUE 6, P488-489, November 1991

A combined flexion—extension injury of the atlanto-axial complex

  • K. Kastanos
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    Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hillbrow Hospital, the Bone and Joint Research Unit, and the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, Johannesburg, South Africa
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  • I. Jakim
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    Requests for reprints should be addressed to: I. Jakim, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, 7 York Road, Parktown, Johannesburg, 2193, South Africa.
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    Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hillbrow Hospital, the Bone and Joint Research Unit, and the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, Johannesburg, South Africa
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DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-1383(91)90138-5
A combined flexion—extension injury of the atlanto-axial complex
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      Accepted: February 22, 1991

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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-1383(91)90138-5

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      © 1991 Published by Elsevier Inc.

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