title: The traumatized vertebral spine reloaded: injury mechanisms and their radiologic patterns.
abstract: The ideal classification of spinal trauma does not yet exist, primarily because the implementation of morphological, biomechanical, and clinical parameters in a single nomenclature is a difficult task. For radiologists and surgeons, who are partners in trauma teams, only a few classifications of injury patterns have been shown to be useful enough to provide rapid and stable therapy decisions in daily practice. From a didactic point of view, however, simplifications of injury mechanisms are of help to become aware of the most important radiologic injury patterns of vertebral trauma. The members of trauma teams should be aware of the strengths and limitations of existing descriptions of imaging features when reporting trauma to the spine. These are discussed in this article.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Spital Bülach, Bülach, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Gerd
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Schueller
authors.affiliation: Section Head of Functional and Morphological Musculoskeletal Radiology, Division of Neuroradiology and Musculoskeletal Radiology, Department of Biomedical Imaging und Image-Guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna General Hospital, Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Claudia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schueller-Weidekamm
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D050815:Fractures, Compression / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D004204:Joint Dislocations / Q000473:pathology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D016103:Spinal Fractures / Q000473:pathology*; D013124:Spinal Injuries / Q000473:pathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed