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Unilateral lumbosacral facet joint dislocation associated with vertical shear sacral fracture
N A Ebraheim1, E R Savolaine, P Shapiro
1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo 43699.
Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
An 18-year-old woman involved in a motor vehicle accident sustained a vertical shear fracture of the sacrum accompanied by unilateral dislocation of the L5-S1 joint. Evaluation of the patient's injuries was defined by computed axial tomography. Through a posterior midline incision, open reductions of the dislocated L5-S1 joint and of the sacral fracture were performed. Reduction was followed by anterior stabilization of the symphysis pubis. The patient remained neurologically intact after surgery.