European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine

Abstract

In the overall structure of spinal injuries in adults vertebro-spinal injury ranges from 2.2% to 20.6% [2,5,7,8,10,12,22]. When fractures of the spine are complicated by neurological disorders, most commonly lower thoracic and lumbar vertebrae - 39.2% and 48.5% are injured respectively [2,4,12,15].
According to various authors, the greatest proportion of spinal injuries is accounted for cervical - 30,0-40,0% of cases, followed by lumbosacral - 25,0-45,0%, thoracic - 15,0-25,0% and multilevel spinal injuries - about 5% [3,4,5,7,12,13,15,16,22,24,26].