Thoracic Fracture-Dislocations Without Spinal Cord Injury: Two Cases Reports / 대한척추외과학회지
Journal of Korean Society of Spine Surgery
; : 69-74, 2006.
Article
in Korean
| WPRIM (Western Pacific)
| ID: wpr-26065
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ABSTRACT
Thoracic fracture-dislocations reportedly lead to an 80% incidence of complete paraplegia. Thus, thoracic fracture-dislocations without cord injury are uncommon. There are a few cases of thoracic fracture-dislocations in which the neural sparing status was associated with separation of the posterior spinal structures, such as the pedicles and laminae. The authors experienced two cases of thoracic fracture-dislocations without spinal cord injury one was a 50-year-old man who fell from the fourth floor of a building and sustained a T6-7 fracture-dislocation; and the other was a 43-year-old man who was involved in motorcycle accident and sustained a T12 fracture-dislocation. Segmental spinal instrumentation and fusion without open reduction was performed in each of the two cases and there has not been any abnormality detected on neurological examination at a minimum follow-up period of 2 years.
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Health context:
SDG3 - Health and Well-Being
Health problem:
Target 3.6: Reduce deaths and the trauma caused by road accidents
Database:
WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Paraplegia
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Spinal Cord
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Spinal Cord Injuries
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Motorcycles
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Incidence
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Follow-Up Studies
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Neurologic Examination
Type of study:
Incidence study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Risk factors
Limits:
Adult
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Humans
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Journal of Korean Society of Spine Surgery
Year:
2006
Document type:
Article