Images in SurgeryTraumatic fracture–dislocation of the lumbar spine
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Discussion
Currently, the world is faced with a road traffic injury epidemic. Motorcyclists and pedestrians are at particularly high risk of crash-related disability.1 Spinal surgeons are encountering more complex patterns of spinal lesions caused by road traffic accidents than before, and are challenged with spinal reconstruction for both destroyed bone and neural structures. Severe traumatic spinal fracture dislocations such as that seen in our patient are infrequent because these patients usually die
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