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Case Report: A case report of unstable Hangman fracture in a eighty year old male

2015-12-17

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Herein we discuss a rare variant of hangman’s fracture in an eighty year old male with good Karnofsky performance score. We performed X-ray and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the cervical spine to confirm the diagnosis. The patient was placed on a gentle cervical traction which showed good reduction. Despite being on a resource limited setup, we performed posterior occipitocervical fusion with bone graft fus...

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Literature Corpus work: 7194086b-2a3c-5ae8-8e5e-ea80f61a1e82
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.6799.2

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