How To Use Compression fracture In A Sentence
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Prior to the introduction in 1955 of succinylcholine muscle relaxation for ECT, many patients sustained spinal compression fractures during the tonic phase of the induced seizure, and pretreatment x-rays of the dorsolumbar spine were routinely obtained for medicolegal documentation.
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A bone scan on Monday revealed a compression fracture in vertebrae in the middle of his back.
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Compression fractures can occur anywhere from the occiput to the sacrum.
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A similar but less marked type of kyphosis may follow upon compression fracture of the spine -- in the condition known as traumatic spondylitis; and as a result of other lesions, such as osteomalacia, or malignant disease, in which the bodies undergo softening and yield, so that the spinous processes project posteriorly.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
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Vertebroplasty makes no attempt to restore height and correct the kyphotic deformity which results from an osteoporotic compression fracture.
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A nuclear bone scan and magnetic resonance imaging of the spine confirmed compression fractures of those two vertebra.