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01-07-2018 | Reviewer's Comment
Expert’s comment concerning Grand Rounds case entitled “Management of a high thoracic Chance Fracture” by A. Bourghli et al. (Eur Spine J; 2017. doi:10.1007/s00586-017-5247-8)
Author:
Christoph Ulrich
Published in:
European Spine Journal
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Issue 7/2018
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Excerpt
When G.Q. Chance in 1948 first reported on a type of flexion fracture of the spine, little was known about the biomechanical implications and especially the impact of this injury, which resulted not only in this type of fracture, but also in a typical pattern of additional lesions as a result of this very special mechanism of injury. …