"Burst fractures are a type of compression fracture related to high-energy axial loading spinal trauma that results in disruption of a vertebral body endplate and the posterior vertebral body cortex. Retropulsion of posterior cortex fragments into the spinal canal is frequently included in the definition. However, some authors, including the popular AO spine classification system, define a burst fracture as any axial compression fracture involving an endplate and the posterior cortex regardless of retropulsion 6."
"See: AO spine classification of thoracolumbar injuries."
"Chance fracture"
Expected headings
"Mechanism"
"butterfly vertebra: well corticated congenital division of vertebrae seen on coronal images; no antecedent trauma history"