Twenty-one patients with thoracolumbar spinal fractures were studied with computed tomography (CT). A vertebral body was involved in 20; 12 had additional fractures of the posterior elements. Five had multiple level injuries. Neurologic deficits occurred in nine and were more common in combined vertebral body and posterior element injury. Five patients had surgical exploration of the spinal can...

STUDY DESIGN  Retrospective case series and literature review. OBJECTIVE  To report and discuss spinal fractures occurring in recreational bobsledders. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA  Spinal fractures have been commonly described following traumatic injury during a number of recreational sports. Reports have focused on younger patients and typically involved high-impact sports or significant in...

STUDY DESIGN The study retrospectively investigated 15 cases with multilevel noncontiguous spinal fractures (MNSF). PURPOSE To clarify the evaluation of true diagnosis and to plane the surgical treatment. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE MNSF are defined as fractures of the vertebral column at more than one level. High-energy injuries caused MNSF, with an incidence ranging from 1.6% to 16.7%. MNSF ma...

BACKGROUND Metastatic spinal tumors are common and major causes of pathological spinal fractures that result in severe pain, weakness, and progressive neurological deficits. This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP) in pain-relief in patients with spinal fractures due to metastatic spinal tumors. METHODS We evaluated 25 documented cases of metastatic spinal...

INTRODUCTION Only a high-energy force can cause thoracic spinal fracture-dislocation injuries, and such injuries should always be suspected in patients with polytrauma. The injury is usually accompanied by neurological symptoms. There are only a few cases of severe thoracic spinal fracture-dislocation without neurological symptoms in the literature, and until now, no case of severe thoracic spi...

✔ Spinal fractures are frequently located at the thoracolumbar junction for biomechanical reasons ✔ The AO classification has gained widespread acceptance in Europe for the grading of thoracolumbar fractures: Type A: vertebral compression fractures; Type B: anterior and posterior column injuries with distraction; Type C: anterior and posterior element injury with rotation ✔ The initial focus of...

We report two cases of Serratia marcescens infection at the sites of spinal fractures and emphasise the fact that neurological deterioration soon after spinal fracture may be due to acute vertebral osteomyelitis.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Spinal instrumentation plays a key role in the treatment of spinal instability in patients with metastatic tumors. Poor bone quality, radiation, and diffuse osseous tumor involvement present significant challenges to spinal stabilization with instrumentation and occasionally result in postinstrumentation compression fractures. Vertebral cement augmentation has been effect...

Introduction: In vitro biomechanical testing of the spine is a well established method to analyze, compare and evaluate different strategies in treatment of spinal fractures [1-3]. Fracture morphology has an important influence on the clinical decision making process of its treatment. By investigating spinal fracture care in vitro, the different types of fractures leading to distinct treatment ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Spinal fractures in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) were difficult to diagnose before CT and MR imaging were available. The purpose of our investigation was to characterize spinal fractures and determine the value of different imaging modalities in AS. METHODS Twelve successive cases of spinal fractures were identified in MR imaging files of AS patients. Conventional radiog...