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  • Title: Upper cervical spine injuries in elderly patients.
    Author: Walid MS, Zaytseva NV.
    Journal: Aust Fam Physician; 2009; 38(1-2):43-5. PubMed ID: 19283235.
    Abstract:
    BACKGROUND: Elderly patients may sustain upper cervical spine injury without neurological symptoms or radiographic evidence of fracture. OBJECTIVE: This review discusses the prevalence and presentations of upper cervical spine injury in the elderly, and the use of imaging in the evaluation of such injuries. DISCUSSION: Typically, upper cervical spine injuries are caused by hyperextension in patients with degenerative changes of the senescent spine. Multiplanar imaging of the cervical spine in elderly patients with persistent post-traumatic head and neck symptoms, even after seemingly minor trauma, is decisive.
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