“Hangman's Fracture” of the Cervical Spine

Richard C. Schneider
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141–154
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Volume 22: Issue 2
DOI link:
https://doi.org/10.3171/jns.1965.22.2.0141
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Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School and Hospital, and St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Pahlavi University, Shiraz, Iran. Formerly Department of Neurosurgery, Providence Hospital, and University of Oregon Medical School, Portland, Oregon.

Department of Anatomy, St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, University of London, England.

Department of Anatomy, Marischal College, Aberdeen, Scotland.

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    Kahn, E. A., , Bassett, R. C., , Schneider, R. C., and & Crosby, E. C. Correlative neurosurgery. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C Thomas, 1955, xv, 413 pp. Kahn, E. A., Bassett, R. C., Schneider, R. C., and Crosby, E. C. Correlative neurosurgery. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C Thomas, 1955, xv, 413 pp.

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    Robertson, W. G. A. Recovery after judicial hanging. Brit. med. J., 1935, 1: 121–122.Robertson, W. G. A. Recovery after judicial hanging. Brit. med. J., 1935, 1: 121–122.

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    Schneider, R. C., and & Kahn, E. A. Chronic neurological sequelae of acute trauma to the spine and spinal cord. I. The significance of the acuteflexion or “tear-drop” fracture-dislocation of the cervical spine. J. Bone Jt. Surg., 1956, 38-A: 985–997.Schneider, R. C., and Kahn, E. A. Chronic neurological sequelae of acute trauma to the spine and spinal cord. I. The significance of the acuteflexion or “tear-drop” fracture-dislocation of the cervical spine. J. Bone Jt. Surg., 1956, 38-A: 985–997.

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    Wolff, R. Injury to the cervical vertebrae as a result of judicial hanging. J. med. Ass. S. Afr., 1928, 2: 460–462.Wolff, R. Injury to the cervical vertebrae as a result of judicial hanging. J. med. Ass. S. Afr., 1928, 2: 460–462.

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    Wood-Jones, F. The ideal lesion produced by judicial hanging. Lancet, 1913, 1: 53.Wood-Jones, F. The ideal lesion produced by judicial hanging. Lancet, 1913, 1: 53.

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