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Chapter 5 - Plain Radiography of the C-spine

from Part I - Plain Radiography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2017

By
Eric Fox Silman
Edited by
J. Christian Fox
J. Christian Fox
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University of California, Irvine
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Clinical Emergency Radiology , pp. 79 - 95
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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