Document Type
Report
Department
Neurosurgery
Abstract
A case of a twenty years old male who had been hit by a van at the lower back, presented two weeks later with complete paraplegia and double incontinence is presented. Radiological imaging revealed shearing of spine with fracture line slicing through the second lumbar (L2) vertebra going across all the three vertebral columns with complete retrolisthesis of upper fragment. He was managed conservatively with immobilization and rehabilitation.
Publication (Name of Journal)
Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons--Pakistan : JCPSP
Recommended Citation
Siddiqui, A. A.,
Shah, A. A.
(2004). Chance-type flexion-distraction fracture of lumbar spine. Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons--Pakistan : JCPSP, 14(6), 372-373.
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https://ecommons.aku.edu/pakistan_fhs_mc_surg_neurosurg/118