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Chance-Type Fracture of L1 with Entrapment of the Cauda Equina

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A patient is presented who sustained a motor vehicle accident while wearing a seat belt. Due to life-threatening intraabdominal lesions, a Chance-type fracture of L1 and a subluxation of C6/C7 were diagnosed and treated surgically with a certain delay. The retention of urine and fecal incontinence could be explained as being due to a partial entrapment of the cauda equina at the level of the fractured pedicle of L1 on the right side with an associated injury of the conus medullaris.

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  1. Department of Traumatology and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium, , , , , , BE

    Paul Vanderschot, Tom Darius, Stefaan Nijs & Paul Broos

  2. Department or Radiology, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium, , , , , , BE

    Luc Lateur

  3. Department or Neurosurgery, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium, , , , , , BE

    Jan Goffin

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  1. Paul Vanderschot
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Received: September 25, 2001; revision accepted: May 4, 2002

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Vanderschot, P., Darius, T., Nijs, S. et al. Chance-Type Fracture of L1 with Entrapment of the Cauda Equina. Eur J Trauma 28, 266–269 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00068-002-1175-2

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