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Lumbar Spine Trauma
Aka: Lumbar Spine Trauma, Thoracic Spine Trauma, Lumbar Spine Injury
- See Also
- Orthopedic Trauma
- Secondary Survey
- Imaging
- CT Thoracic Spine can be reconstituted from CT chest
- CT Lumbar Spine can be reconstituted from CT Abdomen and Pelvis
- Consider spine MRI (especially in children and adolescents)
- Exam
- Vertebral tenderness
- Midline spine deformity
- Neurologic Exam correlated to spinal levels and dermatomes
- Motor Exam
- Sensory Exam
- Reflex Exam
- Associated Conditions
- Vertebral Fracture
- Vertebral dislocation
- Vertebral instability
- Paraplegia
- Quadriplegia
- Nerve root injury