Case Reports
. 2022 Mar 8;14(3):e22955.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.22955.
eCollection 2022 Mar.
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- 1 Orthopaedics (Trauma and Emergency), All India Institute of Medical Sciences Raipur, Raipur, IND.
- 2 Orthopaedic Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Rishikesh, Rishikesh, IND.
- 3 Trauma Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Rishikesh, Rishikesh, IND.
- 4 Orthopaedics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Rishikesh, Rishikesh, IND.
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R Dinesh Iyer et al.
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. 2022 Mar 8;14(3):e22955.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.22955.
eCollection 2022 Mar.
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- 1 Orthopaedics (Trauma and Emergency), All India Institute of Medical Sciences Raipur, Raipur, IND.
- 2 Orthopaedic Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Rishikesh, Rishikesh, IND.
- 3 Trauma Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Rishikesh, Rishikesh, IND.
- 4 Orthopaedics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Rishikesh, Rishikesh, IND.
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Abstract
The thoracolumbar spine is the most commonly afflicted area in vertebral column injuries. Here we bring up a case of a 20-year-old male who presented to our emergency department with a history of a high-velocity road traffic accident with noncontiguous two-level fracture-dislocations of the thoracolumbar spine with blunt trauma to the chest. The patient was managed with posterior reduction and instrumented postero-lateral fusion. Such an injury pattern has been reported only rarely in the literature. This report expects to highlight the unusual fracture pattern of a common injury and the challenges of managing such severe injuries intra-operatively and in the post-operative period.
Keywords:
floating spine; non-contiguous fracture-dislocations; paraplegia; spine trauma; thoraco-lumbar spine.
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The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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