This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Letters to the Editor: Submit a response
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when Letters to the Editor are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow E-mail this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My File Cabinet
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowReprints and Permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Takata, K.
Right arrow Articles by Ohtsuka, Y.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Takata, K.
Right arrow Articles by Ohtsuka, Y.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Technorati  
What's this?

The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Vol 70, Issue 4 589-594, Copyright © 1988 by Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc

JOURNAL CONTENTS

Fracture of the posterior margin of a lumbar vertebral body

K Takata, S Inoue, K Takahashi and Y Ohtsuka
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Chiba University, Japan.

Using computed tomography, we studied twenty-nine patients who had thirty-one fractures of the posterior margin of a vertebra in the lumbar spine. Based on our findings, these fractures were classified morphologically into three types: a simple separation of the entire margin; an avulsion fracture of some of the substance of the vertebral body, including the margin; and a more localized fracture. In this series, twenty-two of the thirty-one fractures were associated with a defect involving the affected end-plate. This fact suggests that the pathogenesis of these fractures may be the fragility of the end-plate.
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Technorati Technorati    What's this?