Author |
Age |
Sex |
Level |
Mechanism |
Treatment |
Risk Factors |
Steel, 1951 [5] |
23y |
M |
T10 |
Spine hyperflexion |
Bracing |
None |
Steel, 1951 [5] |
62y |
M |
T8 |
Direct injury |
Bracing |
None |
Brower et al. 1981 [9] |
71y |
M |
T12 |
Fall from his own height |
Unknown |
Osteopenia, alcoholism |
Hermann et al. 1984 [10] |
45y |
F |
L1 |
Fall from height/direct injury |
Unknown |
Gaucher Type 1 |
Van Eenenaam, et al. 1993 [11] |
75y |
M |
T11 |
Heavy-weight lifting |
Unknown |
Steroids, temporal arteritis |
Young et al. 2002 [2] |
72y |
M |
L4 |
Shoveling snow |
Subtotal corpectomy/ autologous grafting |
Diabetes |
Osterhouse, et al. 2002 [12] |
79y |
M |
L2 |
Indirect injury |
Conservative |
Steroids |
Kapoor et al. 2004 [13] |
71y |
F |
L3 |
Fall from a height |
Posterior stabilization |
None |
Maheshwari et al. 2004 [14] |
62y |
F |
L2, L3 |
Fall in the bathroom |
Unknown |
Osteopenia, diabetes |
Swartz, et al. 2008 [3] |
60y |
M |
T9, T10 |
Minor fall |
T9, T10 corpectomies/T8–11 anterior and posterior fusion |
None |
Ma et al. 2009 [15] |
75y |
F |
T12 |
Trivial fall |
T12 vertebroplasty |
Diabetes |
I. van der Schaaf, et al. 2009 [16] |
87y |
F |
L1 |
Minor trauma |
L1 vertebroplasty |
None |
Matzaroglou et al. 2010 [17] |
31y |
M |
L1 |
Stress fracture |
L1 kyphoplasty |
None |
Fabbriciani et al. 2010 [18] |
81y |
F |
L1 |
Spinal trauma |
Teriparatide |
Osteoporosis |