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Get Your Codes in Order for This Trauma Scenario

Published on Tue Mar 05, 2024

Question: A 25-year-old snowboarder accidentally encounters an obstacle, resulting in a serious fall. Severe neck pain accompanied by transient paralysis and persistent arm paresthesias prompted the ski patrol to send them to the local ED. Plain radiographs showed a unilateral C67 facet fracture with dislocation, which was confirmed on cervical CT and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). A spine surgeon evaluated the [...]
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