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Seatbelt sign (note wrong position of the seatbelt).
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She also had marked seatbelt bruising on the anterior abdominal wall (Figure 1) and midline cervical spine tenderness.
Type III displaced and angulated fracture of the odontoid process.
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CT scan of the cervical spine revealed an anteriorly displaced transverse fracture of the odontoid process with subluxation of C2 on C3 vertebra (Figure 2).
Coronal view arterial phase CT abdomen. Filling defect in main SMV (long arrow) and large amount of intraperitoneal blood.
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Abdominal CT scan confirmed the presence of free fluid in the abdomen and a filling defect in the superior mesenteric vein (Figure 3).