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Case of the Week 515



What is the most likely diagnosis?

  • 53 year-old in motor vehicle collision



Lateral Radiograph of Cervical Spine

  1. Degenerative Disk Disease
  2. Hangman's Fracture
  3. Clay Shoveler's Fracture
  4. Extension Teardrop Fracture
  5. Flexion Teardrop Fracture

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4. Extension Teardrop Fracture

 

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Extension Teardrop Fracture

General Considerations

  • Fracture of the cervical spine caused by the sudden pull of the anterior longitudinal ligament on the anterior, inferior aspect of the vertebral body following extreme hyperextension of the neck
  • Usually involves C2
    • Anterior longitudinal ligament inserts on anteroinferior aspect of C2
  • Fracture of C2 is stable in flexion and unstable in hyperextension

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