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
- 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
See also
-<a href="/articles/flexionteardrop-fracture">flexion teardrop fracture</a>: unstable flexion fracture</li>- +<a title="flexion teardrop fracture" href="/articles/flexion-teardrop-fracture">flexion teardrop fracture</a>: unstable flexion fracture</li>
-<a title="Clay-shoveler fracture" href="/articles/clay-shoveler-fracture-2">clay-shoveler fracture</a>: spinal process avulsion injury</li>- +<a href="/articles/clay-shoveler-fracture-2">clay-shoveler fracture</a>: spinal process avulsion injury</li>