RT Journal
A1 Padula RD, Tracey EJ
T1 FRacture-dislocation of axis and atlas in an infant
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1939
FD March 25
VO 112
IS 12
SP 1149
OP 1150
DO 10.1001/jama.1939.62800120002009a
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.62800120002009a
AB Extensive search of the literature has failed to yield any report of a condition similar to the one to be described. Treatment of the condition is evidently rare, probably owing to the small number of infants relative to the general population, to their sheltered lives and to the great opportunity for death to follow the injury before treatment can be applied. We have found our case interesting from the standpoints of cause, diagnosis and therapy.REPORT OF CASE 
    A 4½2 months old, poorly nourished white boy was rushed into the emergency room of the hospital by an excited father, who asserted that the boy had just been severely shaken by him. The house physician present at once recognized that the child was dying. He sent the nurse into the halls to look for the nearest attending surgeon, while he went about examination of the infant's chest and the administration of