Cowherd's injury: Traumatic retrospondyloptosis of L1 over L2 in a 7-year-old child

Traumatic retrolisthesis of the first lumbar vertebra is a rare injury and only one case has been documented in the literature. We report a case of traumatic retrolisthesis of the first lumbar vertebra in a 7-year old child. He was injured after being dragged by a cow and presented with Frenkel grad...

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Autores principales: Yadav, Vedpal, Mishra, Diwakar, Maini, Lalit, Gautam, VK
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications Pvt Ltd 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3134024/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21772632
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5413.82344
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description Traumatic retrolisthesis of the first lumbar vertebra is a rare injury and only one case has been documented in the literature. We report a case of traumatic retrolisthesis of the first lumbar vertebra in a 7-year old child. He was injured after being dragged by a cow and presented with Frenkel grade A paraplegia. His plain radiographs revealed complete retrolisthesis of the first lumbar vertebra over the second. The patient was treated surgically with open reduction and sublaminar wire loop rectangle fixation. The patient showed Frankle grade D (Frankle grade) neurological recovery in the postoperative period over a period of 15 months. This case is reported in view of rarity and mechanism of injury is described.
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spelling pubmed-31340242011-07-19 Cowherd's injury: Traumatic retrospondyloptosis of L1 over L2 in a 7-year-old child Yadav, Vedpal Mishra, Diwakar Maini, Lalit Gautam, VK Indian J Orthop Case Report Traumatic retrolisthesis of the first lumbar vertebra is a rare injury and only one case has been documented in the literature. We report a case of traumatic retrolisthesis of the first lumbar vertebra in a 7-year old child. He was injured after being dragged by a cow and presented with Frenkel grade A paraplegia. His plain radiographs revealed complete retrolisthesis of the first lumbar vertebra over the second. The patient was treated surgically with open reduction and sublaminar wire loop rectangle fixation. The patient showed Frankle grade D (Frankle grade) neurological recovery in the postoperative period over a period of 15 months. This case is reported in view of rarity and mechanism of injury is described. Medknow Publications Pvt Ltd 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3134024/ /pubmed/21772632 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5413.82344 Text en © Indian Journal of Orthopaedics http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Cowherd's injury: Traumatic retrospondyloptosis of L1 over L2 in a 7-year-old child
title Cowherd's injury: Traumatic retrospondyloptosis of L1 over L2 in a 7-year-old child
title_full Cowherd's injury: Traumatic retrospondyloptosis of L1 over L2 in a 7-year-old child
title_fullStr Cowherd's injury: Traumatic retrospondyloptosis of L1 over L2 in a 7-year-old child
title_full_unstemmed Cowherd's injury: Traumatic retrospondyloptosis of L1 over L2 in a 7-year-old child
title_short Cowherd's injury: Traumatic retrospondyloptosis of L1 over L2 in a 7-year-old child
title_sort cowherd's injury: traumatic retrospondyloptosis of l1 over l2 in a 7-year-old child
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3134024/
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