Matti Scholz, Philipp Schleicher, Frank Kandziora, Andreas Badke, Marc Dreimann, Harry Gebhard, Erol Gercek, Oliver Gonschorek, René Hartensuer, Jan-Sven Gilbert Jarvers, Sebastian Katscher, Philipp Kobbe, Holger Koepp, Andreas Korge, Stefan Matschke, Sven Mörk, Christian W Müller, Georg Osterhoff, Ferenc Pécsi, Miguel Pishnamaz, Maximilian Reinhold, Gregor Schmeiser, Klaus John Schnake, Kristian Schneider, Ulrich Josef Albert Spiegl, Bernhard Ullrich
In a consensus process with four sessions in 2017, the working group "upper cervical spine" of the German Society for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery (DGOU) formulated "Therapeutic Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Upper Cervical Fractures", taking their own experience and the current literature into consideration. The following article describes the recommendations for axis ring fractures (traumatic spondylolysis C2). About 19 to 49% of all cervical spine injuries include the axis vertebra...
December 2018: Zeitschrift Für Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie