The neck-tongue syndrome following cervical whiplash injury

Background: Neck-tongue syndrome is a disorder causing unilateral neck pain, accompanied by simultaneous ipsilateral numbness of the tongue. It is explicable by compression of the second cervical root in the atlantoaxial space on sharp rotation of the neck. It may be secondary, idiopathic, familial,...

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Main Authors: Domenico Chirchiglia, Attilio Della Torre, Pasquale Chirchiglia, Dorotea Pugliese, Donatella Gabriele
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-03-01
Series:Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214751918301956