Elsevier

Surgery

Volume 153, Issue 5, May 2013, Pages 739-740
Surgery

Images in Surgery
Traumatic fracture–dislocation of the lumbar spine

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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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