Spinal fractures
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Spinal fractures are usually the result of significant trauma to a normally formed skeleton, or the result of trauma to a weakened spinal column. Examples include:
- Jefferson fracture: ring fracture of C1
- hangman fracture: bilateral pedicle or pars fracture of C2
- dens fracture
- flexion teardrop fracture: unstable flexion fracture
- extension teardrop fracture: stable injury
- clay-shoveler fracture: spinal process avulsion injury
- Chance fracture: horizontal fracture through the thoracolumbar spine
- burst fracture: always involves the posterior vertebral body cortex
- wedge fracture: single column anterior vertebral fracture
- vertebra plana: vertebra has lost almost its entire height both anteriorly and posteriorly
- chalk-stick fracture: most frequently in ankylosing spondylitis
- limbus fracture: fracture of the apophyseal ring
Further information about specific fractures can be found by anatomic site:
- cervical spine fracture
- thoracic spine fracture
- lumbar spine fracture
- sacral fracture
- coccygeal fracture
Differential diagnoses
- limbus vertebra: can mimic a fracture
See also
-<p><strong>Spinal fractures</strong> are usually the result of significant trauma to a normally formed skeleton, or the result of trauma to a weakened spinal column. Examples include:</p><ul>- +<p><strong>Spinal fractures</strong> are usually the result of significant trauma to a normally formed skeleton or the result of trauma to a weakened spinal column. Examples include:</p><ul>
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