Eleven Levels of Spinous Process Fractures in Thoracolumbar Spine

Cases of over 5-level spinous process fractures are extremely rare. Thoracolumbar region of spine is superimposed on ribs; and as such additional studies such as computerized tomography are needed to diagnose fractures in this region. We report a case of 11 contiguous level thoracolumbar spinous pro...

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Autores principales: Kim, Whoan Jeang, Chi, Yong Joo, Park, Kyung Hoon, Choy, Won Sik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society of Spine Surgery 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4278995/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25558332
http://dx.doi.org/10.4184/asj.2014.8.6.852
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author Kim, Whoan Jeang
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description Cases of over 5-level spinous process fractures are extremely rare. Thoracolumbar region of spine is superimposed on ribs; and as such additional studies such as computerized tomography are needed to diagnose fractures in this region. We report a case of 11 contiguous level thoracolumbar spinous process fractures, which has been treated conservatively.
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spelling pubmed-42789952015-01-02 Eleven Levels of Spinous Process Fractures in Thoracolumbar Spine Kim, Whoan Jeang Chi, Yong Joo Park, Kyung Hoon Choy, Won Sik Asian Spine J Case Report Cases of over 5-level spinous process fractures are extremely rare. Thoracolumbar region of spine is superimposed on ribs; and as such additional studies such as computerized tomography are needed to diagnose fractures in this region. We report a case of 11 contiguous level thoracolumbar spinous process fractures, which has been treated conservatively. Korean Society of Spine Surgery 2014-12 2014-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4278995/ /pubmed/25558332 http://dx.doi.org/10.4184/asj.2014.8.6.852 Text en Copyright © 2014 by Korean Society of Spine Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Eleven Levels of Spinous Process Fractures in Thoracolumbar Spine
title_sort eleven levels of spinous process fractures in thoracolumbar spine
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4278995/
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