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[Lumbar Chance fracture in an child associated with an intra-abdominal lesion]
E Lesprit1, J R Pontailler, P Vergnes
1Service de Chirurgie Pédiatrique, Hôpital des enfants, C.H.U. Pellegrin, Bordeaux, France.
Acta Orthopaedica Belgica
|June 8, 2000
Abstract:
We report the case of a teenager who was involved in a road traffic accident. She presented a flexion-distraction type of vertebral injury, (Chance fracture). This fracture was associated with an intra-abdominal injury. The child was a passenger in a rear seat using a shoulder seatbelt restraint.