Spinal fractures
Dr Frank Gaillard and Dr Abhijit Datir et al.
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
- wedge fracture
- vertebra plana
- chalk-stick fracture: most frequently in ankylosing spondylitis
Further information about specific fractures can be found by anatomic site:
Differential diagnoses
- limbus vertebra : can mimic a fracture
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