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
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limbus vertebra: canThese may mimic a fracture
See also
-</ul><h4>Differential diagnoses</h4><ul><li>-<a href="/articles/limbus-vertebra">limbus vertebra</a>: can mimic a fracture</li></ul><h4>See also</h4><ul>- +</ul><h4>Differential diagnoses</h4><p>These may mimic a fracture</p><ul>
- +<li><a href="/articles/limbus-vertebra">limbus vertebra</a></li>
- +<li><a title="Intercalary bone" href="/articles/intercalary-bone">intercalary bone</a></li>
- +</ul><h4>See also</h4><ul>