The first case report of multiple thoracic vertebrae fractures caused by a low-voltage electric shock

BACKGROUND: This paper describes a unique case—the first case of multiple fractures of the thoracic vertebrae caused by a low-voltage electric shock. CASE PRESENTATION: A 22-year-old male patient was diagnosed with compression fractures of Th2–Th6 caused by a muscle spasm resulting from an electric...

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Autores principales: Žatecký, Jan, Peteja, Matúš, Gawel, Wladyslaw Bartosz, Lerch, Milan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8978402/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35379358
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40001-022-00681-4
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author Žatecký, Jan
Peteja, Matúš
Gawel, Wladyslaw Bartosz
Lerch, Milan
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Gawel, Wladyslaw Bartosz
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description BACKGROUND: This paper describes a unique case—the first case of multiple fractures of the thoracic vertebrae caused by a low-voltage electric shock. CASE PRESENTATION: A 22-year-old male patient was diagnosed with compression fractures of Th2–Th6 caused by a muscle spasm resulting from an electric shock. The patient was treated conservatively using a cervico-thoracic support corset. After rehabilitation, the patient has regained his physiological movement of the spine without any back pain. CONCLUSIONS: Albeit vertebral fractures caused by electric shock injury are extremely rare, clinicians should always keep in mind this diagnosis, especially when clinical symptoms such as pain and limitation of movement are present.
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spelling pubmed-89784022022-04-05 The first case report of multiple thoracic vertebrae fractures caused by a low-voltage electric shock Žatecký, Jan Peteja, Matúš Gawel, Wladyslaw Bartosz Lerch, Milan Eur J Med Res Case Report BACKGROUND: This paper describes a unique case—the first case of multiple fractures of the thoracic vertebrae caused by a low-voltage electric shock. CASE PRESENTATION: A 22-year-old male patient was diagnosed with compression fractures of Th2–Th6 caused by a muscle spasm resulting from an electric shock. The patient was treated conservatively using a cervico-thoracic support corset. After rehabilitation, the patient has regained his physiological movement of the spine without any back pain. CONCLUSIONS: Albeit vertebral fractures caused by electric shock injury are extremely rare, clinicians should always keep in mind this diagnosis, especially when clinical symptoms such as pain and limitation of movement are present. BioMed Central 2022-04-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8978402/ /pubmed/35379358 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40001-022-00681-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Peteja, Matúš
Gawel, Wladyslaw Bartosz
Lerch, Milan
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8978402/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35379358
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40001-022-00681-4
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