U-shaped sacral fracture and lumbosacral dislocation as a result of a shotgun injury: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Vilela, Marcelo D ^a   Gelfenbeyn, Mikhail ^a   Bellabarba, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Lumbopelvic fixation; Lumbosacral dislocation; Pelvic instability; Sacral fracture; Shotgun wound

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; COLLAGEN; FIBRIN GLUE;

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLAST INJURY; CASE REPORT; CAUDA EQUINA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEBRIDEMENT; DECORTICATION; DEVICE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; LUMBOSACRAL DISLOCATION; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MALE; NERVE GRAFT; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACRAL FRACTURE; SACRAL SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINE FRACTURE; SPINE STABILIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VERTEBRA BODY; VERTEBRA DISLOCATION; BACK; FIREARM; FRACTURE; INJURY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATHOLOGY; SACRUM;

ADULT; FIREARMS; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; SACRUM; SPINAL FRACTURES; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 62449319303     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000336313.88450.5E     Document Type: Article

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