Traumatic Fracture of the Thoracic Spine With Severe Posterolateral Dislocation: A Case Report

Thoracic spine fracture-dislocation injuries are always associated with high-energy trauma and result in severe neurological symptoms. Surgical reconstruction and stabilization are essential for the early mobilization and rehabilitation of patients with this type of injury. Here, we present a unique...

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Autores principales: Zygogiannis, Konstantinos, Manolakos, Konstantinos, Kalampokis, Anastasios, Thivaios, Georgios C, Moschos, Savvas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9072279/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35530925
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23830
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author Zygogiannis, Konstantinos
Manolakos, Konstantinos
Kalampokis, Anastasios
Thivaios, Georgios C
Moschos, Savvas
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description Thoracic spine fracture-dislocation injuries are always associated with high-energy trauma and result in severe neurological symptoms. Surgical reconstruction and stabilization are essential for the early mobilization and rehabilitation of patients with this type of injury. Here, we present a unique case of a 57-year-old Greek male who sustained a posterolateral T3-T4 fracture-dislocation, with a complete spinal cord injury (SCI), after falling from a height. The patient was treated with surgical reduction and internal fixation with screws and rods, with satisfactory subsequent realignment.
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spelling pubmed-90722792022-05-06 Traumatic Fracture of the Thoracic Spine With Severe Posterolateral Dislocation: A Case Report Zygogiannis, Konstantinos Manolakos, Konstantinos Kalampokis, Anastasios Thivaios, Georgios C Moschos, Savvas Cureus Emergency Medicine Thoracic spine fracture-dislocation injuries are always associated with high-energy trauma and result in severe neurological symptoms. Surgical reconstruction and stabilization are essential for the early mobilization and rehabilitation of patients with this type of injury. Here, we present a unique case of a 57-year-old Greek male who sustained a posterolateral T3-T4 fracture-dislocation, with a complete spinal cord injury (SCI), after falling from a height. The patient was treated with surgical reduction and internal fixation with screws and rods, with satisfactory subsequent realignment. Cureus 2022-04-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9072279/ /pubmed/35530925 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23830 Text en Copyright © 2022, Zygogiannis et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Zygogiannis, Konstantinos
Manolakos, Konstantinos
Kalampokis, Anastasios
Thivaios, Georgios C
Moschos, Savvas
Traumatic Fracture of the Thoracic Spine With Severe Posterolateral Dislocation: A Case Report
title Traumatic Fracture of the Thoracic Spine With Severe Posterolateral Dislocation: A Case Report
title_full Traumatic Fracture of the Thoracic Spine With Severe Posterolateral Dislocation: A Case Report
title_fullStr Traumatic Fracture of the Thoracic Spine With Severe Posterolateral Dislocation: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Traumatic Fracture of the Thoracic Spine With Severe Posterolateral Dislocation: A Case Report
title_short Traumatic Fracture of the Thoracic Spine With Severe Posterolateral Dislocation: A Case Report
title_sort traumatic fracture of the thoracic spine with severe posterolateral dislocation: a case report
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9072279/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35530925
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23830
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