Abstract

ROIG FABRE, Esteban  and  GONZALEZ VALCARCEL, Ivón. Fractura del ahorcado: Antecedentes históricos. Rev Cubana Cir [online]. 2002, vol.41, n.1, pp. 5-10. ISSN 1561-2945.

Hangman’s fracture is the traumatic injury of the neural arch of the axis. This affection started to be understood at the beginning of the last century, though the procedure of the judicial hanging had been used hundreds of years before. The objective of this paper is to review the historical antecedents of the knowledge of this affection, its natural presentation, the imaging diagnosis and the treatment alternatives up to now

Keywords : ATLANTO-AXIAL JOINT [injuries]; SPINAL CORD INJURIES [history]; SPONDILOLIS-THESIS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE.

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