title: Pediatric thoracic spine injuries: a single-institution experience.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The objective of our study was to determine the incidence of various fractures of the thoracic spine in pediatric patients.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Simple compression and process-only fractures were the most common types of fractures and all other fracture types were infrequent. Distraction injury was unexpectedly more common in the nonjunctional thoracic spine than in the junctional thoracic spine.
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Radiology, Helen DeVos Children's Hospital, 100 Michigan Ave, Grand Rapids, MI 49503.
authors.forename: Joseph J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Junewick
authors.forename: Heather L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Borders
authors.forename: Alan T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Davis
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D050815:Fractures, Compression / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008297:Male; D008824:Michigan / Q000453:epidemiology; D012307:Risk Factors; D016103:Spinal Fractures / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries* / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
keywords: distraction fracture; flexion-distraction injury; pediatric thoracic spine fracture