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Monday, March 16, 2015
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This patient comes in with this cervical spine X-ray:
Challenge: What's the arrow pointing to?
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This is traumatic spondylolysis of C2, also called a Hangman’s fracture, is an unstable injury from extreme hyperextension of the cervicocranium resulting from an abrupt deceleration.
dens fracture of C2, Odontoid fracture type II ?
ReplyDeleteyep! C2 fracture
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This is traumatic spondylolysis of C2, also called a Hangman’s fracture, is an unstable injury from extreme hyperextension of the cervicocranium resulting from an abrupt deceleration.
Source: UpToDate; Wikipedia.