ArticlePediatric reports2018
Epidemiology of vertebral fractures in pediatric and adolescent patients.
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- The 30-year evolution of motor vehicle road injuries: Can the future come from the shadows?PloS one · 2026Article
- Traumatic spine injuries in paediatric and adolescent patients: a registry-based study of ICU needs and clinical outcomes.BMC pediatrics · 2025Article
- Global burden of vertebral fractures from 1990 to 2021 and projections for the next three decades.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2025Article
- Temporal trends in the burden of vertebral fractures caused by falls in China and globally from 1990 to 2021: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2025Article
- Epidemiology of pediatric thoracolumbar spinal fractures and associated injuries: a single-center experience.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2025Article
- Skeletal growth and development dictate the processes of vertebral fracture in the pediatric spine; a review emphasizing fracture biomechanics of the vertebral body during the period of skeletal immaturity.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Review
- The global burden of vertebral fractures caused by falls among individuals aged 55 and older, 1990 to 2021.PloS one · 2025Article
- Comparing Management Strategies for Thoracolumbar Injury Classification and Severity Score of 4 (TLICS = 4) in the Pediatric Population: A Single-Institutional Experience.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Epidemiology of pediatric spinal trauma with neurological deficits in Catalonia: a 36-year experience.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2024Observational
- Evaluation of traumatic spinal injuries: a pediatric perspective.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2024Article
- Activity-restriction only as treatment yields positive outcomes in pediatric spinal compression fractures: a prospective study of 47 patients at medium-term follow-up.Acta orthopaedica · 2024Article
- Pediatric Spinal Trauma at a Single Level 1 Trauma Center: Review of 62 Cases.Clinics in orthopedic surgery · 2023Article
- Clinical outcome following magnetic resonance imaging as first-line imaging in low-impact pediatric spine trauma: a single-center retrospective observational study.Pediatric radiology · 2023Observational
- Retrospective Review of 181 Patients with Pathologic Vertebral Compression Fractures.Journal of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America · 2023Article
- Emergency MRI in Spine Trauma of Children and Adolescents-A Pictorial Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Validation of the TLICS and AOSpine injury score for surgical management of paediatric traumatic spinal injuries.Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery · 2023Article
- Characterization of acute American football spinal injuries in a multi-center healthcare system.Emergency radiology · 2022Article
- Fracture Risk in Pediatric Patients With MEN2B.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2022Article
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Abstract
Spinal injuries in children and adolescents are rare injuries, but consequences for the growing skeleton can be devastating. Knowledge of accident causes, clinical symptoms and diagnostics should be part of every trauma department treating these patients. We retrospectively analyzed patients with radiographically proven vertebral fractures of the spine. After clinical examination and tentative diagnosis the fractures and injuries were proven with conventional X-ray, computed tomography (CT) scans or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The study included 890 fractures in 546 patients with an average age of 12.8±6.2 (6.6-19.4) years. Females had an average age of 13.7±6.3 (7.4-20.0) years, whereas males were on average 12.0 (6.0-18.0) years old. Fall from height (58%) was the main cause of accident and the most common region of fracture was the thoracolumbar spine with a shift towards the thoracic spine the more fractures occurred. Merely 3.7% of all patients required operative treatment. If a vertebral fracture is found in children and adolescents, it is highly recommended to exclude synchronous additional spine fractures in other levels; prevention should concentrate on fall and traffic accidents.
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