title: Complete traumatic fracture-dislocation L3-L4 of the lumbar spine.
abstract: Complete traumatic fracture-dislocation of the lumbar spine is a rare spinal injury often leading to death. Surgical intervention is an effective treatment modality to decrease mortality. Our patient was a 16 year old boy who had a collision caused by fall from a construction material lifter. He was referred to our hospital with waist trauma. Later, the patient underwent posterior surgical decompression during which vertebral column restoration by long segment fixation was performed. After surgery there were no significant changes in the patient condition.
authors.affiliation: Hassan Reza Mohammadi, Department of Neurosurgery, Imam Hossein Hospital, Shahid Beheshti, University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Hassan Reza
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Mohammadi
authors.affiliation: Shokrollah Zandi, Department of Medicine, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran. Neurosurgeon Resident in Imam Hossein Hospital, Shahid Beheshti, University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Shokrollah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zandi
keywords: Decompression; Spinal Cord Injury; Spinal Fractures