Thoracolumbar burst fracture with horizontal fracture of the posterior column

Spine

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 83-87

  Abe, Eiji ^a,d   Sato, Kozo ^a   Shimada, Yoichi ^a   Mizutani, Yoichi ^b   Chiba, Mitsuho ^a   Okuyama, Koichiro ^c  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Yamamoto Kumiai General Hospital   (Japan)

^c Japan Organization of Occupational Health and Safe   (Japan)

^d AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

burst fracture; flexion distraction injury; horizontal fracture; thoracolumbar spine; unstable

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEATBELT INJURY; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE SCINTISCANNING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC FIXATION DEVICES; SPINAL FRACTURES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031012807     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-199701010-00014     Document Type: Article

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