INTRODUCTION: While rib fractures due to blunt traumas are common, pericardial and diaphragmatic injuries caused by rarely seen. Diagnosis is challenging the difference in clinical symptoms which may have severe consequences. 
 CASE: A 58-year-old female patient who had a traffic accident was referred our centre left effusion while being followed up for tibial fracture. Left rupture detect...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the usefulness of vertebral morphometry in identifying unreferred vertebral fractures and correlate potential risk factors. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Female patients above 45 years, postmenopausal for at least 2 years, diagnosed with osteoporosis and undergoing treatment for at least three months were considered eligible. All of them underwent bone densitometry and vertebral...

BACKGROUND In November 2008, a surgical team from the Red Cross Hospital Beverwijk, the Netherlands, was deployed in Afghanistan for three months to attend in the army hospital of Kandahar.During their stay, four incidents of armored personnel carriers encountering an improvised explosive device were assessed. In each incident, two soldiers were involved, whose injuries were strikingly similar....

At the Specialty Clinics of Georgia we have been evaluating the comparative efficacy of the Gray Ramus Communicans Nerve Block for the treatment of painful osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture. The relative frequency of Thoracic and Lumbar fractures being equal, we began to ask the question why was the utilization of the Gray Ramus Communicans Nerve Block more frequent for a lumbar verte...

Fig. 1.-Case 1: Sagittal MR image (700/20; 0.5 T) shows marked atrophy of cord (arrows) extending from C7 to T3. Thoracic spinal cord is normal. No fractures or subluxations are present. Fig. 2.-Case 2: Sagittal magnified MR image (700/20; 1.5 T) shows severe atrophy of cervical spinal cord at T1 and T2. Linear areas of isointense signal intensity in thecal sac (arrows) posterior to region of c...

Aim: Balloon kyphoplasty is a popular minimally invasive technique for vertebral fractures. Although fractures occur mostly in the thoracolumbar region, compression can be seen entire column. The mid-thoracic levels are difficult areas terms of complications procedures. Our study aimed to examine effect balloon on height, kyphosis angle, and cement leaks as complication fractures.
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Motor vehicle accidents continue to cause thousands of life threatening injuries or mortality (nearly 45,000 deaths in 2021) the United States. A sixteen year-old young man riding a motorcycle was severely injured when struck by an automobile driven individual under influence alcohol. Multiple long bone fractures, left renal artery torn off aorta, with non-function kidney, urinary bladder ruptu...

Most fractures of the thoracic and lumbar vertebral bodies are stable according to the classification of Holdsworth (1963). These lesions differ from unstable fractures in that they are not usually complicated by neurological damage and mobilisation is unlikely to injure the spinal cord or nerve roots. Nevertheless, it is apparent from everyday clinical practice that not all patients make a com...

Objectives: Traumatic spine injuries may lead to devastating outcomes. One of the most common causes death in these patients is thromboembolism, more with those who have risk factors. This study aimed find out incidence and associated factors thromboembolism traumatic fractures. Methods: retrospective cohort included all adult fractures from 2007 2014 King Abdulaziz Medical City Riyadh. Signifi...

INTRODUCTION Chest trauma may be blunt or penetrating and the chest is the third most common trauma region. It is a significant cause of mortality. Multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) has been an increasingly used method to evaluate chest trauma because of its high success in detecting tissue and organ injuries. Herein, we aimed to present MDCT findings in patients with blunt and penetrati...