OCCIPITAL CONDYLE FRACTURE MUST BE CONSIDERED IN THE PEDIATRIC POPULATION - CASE-REPORT

Authors
STROOBANTS J SEYNAEVE P FIDLERS L KLAES R BRABANTS K VANHOYE M
Citation
J. Stroobants et al., OCCIPITAL CONDYLE FRACTURE MUST BE CONSIDERED IN THE PEDIATRIC POPULATION - CASE-REPORT, The journal of trauma, injury, infection, and critical care, 36(3), 1994, pp. 440-441
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Emergency Medicine & Critical Care
Journal title
The journal of trauma, injury, infection, and critical care → ACNP
Volume
36
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
440 - 441
Database
ISI
SICI code
Abstract
To our knowledge, no case of occipital condyle fracture after minor he ad trauma in the pediatric population has been published. We report th e case of a 12-year-old girl with a Jefferson's fracture detected on x -ray films. Axial high resolution computed tomography and coronal reco nstruction images demonstrated the additional occipital condyle fractu re.