Jason W Savage, Timothy A Moore, Paul M Arnold, Nikhil Thakur, Wellington K Hsu, Alpesh A Patel, Kathryn McCarthy, Gregory D Schroeder, Alexander R Vaccaro, John R Dimar, Paul A Anderson
STUDY DESIGN: The thoracolumbar injury classification system (TLICS) was evaluated in 20 consecutive pediatric spine trauma cases. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine the reliability and validity of the TLICS in pediatric spine trauma. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: The TLICS was developed to improve the categorization and management of thoracolumbar trauma. TLICS has been shown to have good reliability and validity in the adult population...
September 15, 2015: Spine