[Diagnosis of uncomplicated compression fractures of the spine in children]

During the first three days after trauma a pronounced hypotonia of muscles independent of the localization of the vertebral column was observed. Two patients of mathematical estimation of the clinoid form of the vertebra were proposed aimed at objectivization of the roentgenological information. In 90% of cases the methods proved to be effective. Gamma scintigraphic examination of the vertebral column was carried out in 101 patients. The results obtained have shown the method to be highly sensitive and objective and to distinguish the normal state, disease and trauma of the vertebral column