Book contents
- Postgraduate Orthopaedics
- Postgraduate Orthopaedics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Interactive website
- Section 1 The FRCS (Tr & Orth) Oral Examination
- Section 2 Adult Elective Orthopaedics and Spine
- Section 3 Trauma
- Chapter 9 General principles and fracture biomechanics
- Chapter 10 Lower limb trauma I
- Chapter 11 Lower limb trauma II
- Chapter 12 Upper limb trauma I
- Chapter 13 Upper limb trauma II
- Chapter 14 Pelvic trauma
- Chapter 15 Spinal trauma
- Chapter 16 Paediatric trauma
- Section 4 Children’s Orthopaedics/Hand and Upper Limb
- Section 5 Applied Basic Sciences
- Section 6 Drawings for the FRCS (Tr & Orth)
- Index
- References
Chapter 15 - Spinal trauma
from Section 3 - Trauma
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2019
- Postgraduate Orthopaedics
- Postgraduate Orthopaedics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Interactive website
- Section 1 The FRCS (Tr & Orth) Oral Examination
- Section 2 Adult Elective Orthopaedics and Spine
- Section 3 Trauma
- Chapter 9 General principles and fracture biomechanics
- Chapter 10 Lower limb trauma I
- Chapter 11 Lower limb trauma II
- Chapter 12 Upper limb trauma I
- Chapter 13 Upper limb trauma II
- Chapter 14 Pelvic trauma
- Chapter 15 Spinal trauma
- Chapter 16 Paediatric trauma
- Section 4 Children’s Orthopaedics/Hand and Upper Limb
- Section 5 Applied Basic Sciences
- Section 6 Drawings for the FRCS (Tr & Orth)
- Index
- References
Summary
A 53-year-old man was involved in a road traffic accident. He was driving the car and was wearing a seat belt. This is the radiograph obtained in casualty (Figure 15.1a). What does it show?
This is a plain lateral radiograph of the cervical spine that shows anterior translation of the C6 vertebra on C7. This translation is more than 25% so this is likely a bifacet dislocation. The inferior facets of C6 can be seen to lie anterior to the superior facets of C7. This is a bifacet dislocation. The C7/T1 border is not clearly seen and therefore this is an inadequate radiograph.
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- Postgraduate OrthopaedicsViva Guide for the FRCS (Tr & Orth) Examination, pp. 311 - 331Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019