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Chapter 9 - Cervical Spine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2016

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Matthew B. Baird
Edited by
Anna L. Waterbrook
Anna L. Waterbrook
Affiliation:
University of Arizona
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Sports Medicine for the Emergency Physician
A Practical Handbook
 , pp. 311 - 336
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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