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Patient Saf Surg. 2008 Nov 10;2(1):29. doi: 10.1186/1754-9493-2-29.

Traumatic unilateral lumbosacral jumped facet without fracture in a child - presentation of a safe treatment strategy for a rare injury.

Patient safety in surgery

Oszkar Szentirmai, Joshua Seinfeld, Kathryn Beauchamp, Vikas Patel

Affiliations

  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Denver Health Medical Center, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado, USA. [email protected].

PMID: 19000310 PMCID: PMC2621140 DOI: 10.1186/1754-9493-2-29

Abstract

The vast majority of pediatric lumbosacral spondylolisthesis have developmental etiology. Of the very rare type of pediatric lumbosacral facet dislocations, there are only three reported cases of a pediatric unilateral jumped facet injury. All of these cases are associated with fracture dislocation of L5-S1. Hyperflexion with rotation is thought to provoke this uncommon type of spine injury.The authors report the first pediatric patient reported in literature to date with a traumatic unilateral jumped facet at the lumbosacral joint without fracture. The presentation, surgical treatment, hospital course, outcome and management options with the review of the literature is summarized.

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