Cervical Fractures (Subscribe)  

May be clinically & radiographically similar to flexion teardrop fracture;
- its important to distinguish these two, since, neurologic deficits assoc w/ burst fracture may be...

Injuries of the subaxial cervical spine (C3-7) are among the most common and potentially most devastating injuries involving the axial skeleton. Assume a cervical spine injury is present until proven otherwise in patients presenting to an emergency facility with a history of a high-speed motor vehicle accident, significant head or...

Management of Acute Odontoid Fractures: Operative Techniques and Complication Avoidance from Neurosurg Focus 8(6), 2000.
Shushil Shilpakar SK, M.D., Mark R. Mclaughlin, M.D., Regis W. Haid, Jr. M.D., Gerald E. Rodts, Jr., M.D., Brian R. Subach, M.D., Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal; and The Emory Clinic, Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia
Abstract In...

avulsion of anterioinferior corner of cervical vertebral body by anterior ligament
most severe and unstable injury of the C-spine
often the result of diving into shallow water
may be secondary to hyperflexion or hyperextension
typically at C2

FLEXION:
* bilateral interfacetal dislocation
* flexion teardrop fracture (usually C5 or C6)
EXTENSION:
* extension teardrop fracture (usually C2 or C3)
* hangman's fracture
* extension-dislocation
* extension-fracture-dislocation
* odontoid fracture
VERTICAL COMPRESSION:
* Jefferson burst fracture