Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 38, Issue 1 , Pages 26-30 , July 2001

Football protective gear and cervical spine imaging

Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting, Atlanta, GA, May 2001.

Received 22 March 2001 ,Revised 5 April 2001 ,Accepted 10 April 2001.

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☆ Author contributions are provided at the end of this article.

☆☆ This work was supported by a grant from the Maine Medical Center Medical Research Committee.

★ Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(01)97146-X

doi: 10.1067/mem.2001.116333

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 38, Issue 1 , Pages 26-30 , July 2001

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