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Cervical Spine Injuries

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Cervical spine injuries account for about one-third of all spinal injuries. Goldberg et al. [89] prospectively studied 34 069 patients with blunt trauma undergoing cervical spine radiographs at 21 institutions to accurately assess the prevalence, spectrum, and distribution of cervical spine injury after blunt trauma. Of these patients, 818 (2.4%) had a total of 1496 distinct cervical spine injuries. The second cervical vertebra was the most common (24.0%) level of injury, one-third of which were odontoid fractures. In the subaxial spine, C6 and C7 were the most frequently affected levels (40%). The most frequent fracture site was the vertebral body. Nearly two-thirds of all injuries (71%) were considered clinically significant.

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