objective: thoracic trauma may be a life-threatening condition. flail chest is a severe chest injury with high mortality rates. surgery is not frequently performed and, in literature, data are controversial. the authors report their experience in the treatment of flail chest by an extracortical internal-external stabilization technique with kirshner’s wires (k-wires). methods: from 2010 to 2015...

conclusions this new suggested scale shows a better value to predict patients’ length of hospital stay compared to iss and niss. however, future studies with larger sample sizes and more confounding factors such as prehospital procedures, intubation and other procedures during admission, should be designed to examine these scoring systems and confirm the results of our study. background trauma ...

BACKGROUND Norway has been contributing military forces to Afghanistan since 2001. The following is an overview of all combat-related injuries and deaths among Norwegian soldiers in the period from 2002 to 2010. MATERIAL AND METHOD All medical records for Norwegian military personnel in Afghanistan in the period to January 2011 were reviewed and those who fell or were injured during combat we...

During 1987 and 1988, in Newfoundland, there were 661 motor-vehicle accidents involving a moose; 133 people were injured and three died. This constitutes a major problem for the provincial health-care system. In 95 per cent of the patients who were involved in fifty-five primary collisions (the vehicle hit only the moose), the injury-severity score was less than 9 (mean and standard deviation, ...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study is to identify the independent risk factors of neurologic deficit after thoracolumbar burst fracture. Traumatic fractures of the thoracolumbar spine are the most common type of spinal column fractures. Many studies have attempted to determine whether neurologic deficit in such fractures is related to spinal canal stenosis or other parameters observed on ax...

INTRODUCTION TO THORACOLUMBAR SPINE FRACTURES ASSESSMENT OF THORACOLUMBAR SPINE FRACTURES Thoracolumbar Spine Fracture Injury Mechanisms Injuries Associated with Thoracolumbar Spine Fractures Signs and Symptoms Imaging and Other Diagnostic Studies Classification Outcomes PATHOANATOMY AND APPLIED ANATOMY RELATING TO THORACOLUMBAR SPINE FRACTURES THORACOLUMBAR SPINE FRACTURE TREATMENT OPTIONS: CO...

Background: Unstable thoracolumbar burst fractures are treated surgically by short segment fi xation but may be associated with high implant failure. Supplementation of anterior column by insertion of screw at fracture site makes it more biomechanically stable. Objectives: The purpose of this prospective study was to evaluate radiological parameters in thoracolumbar fractures treated with inter...