Fractures of the posterior apophyseal ring of the lumbar vertebral body in young patients. Three cases
Massari, L.; Chiarelli, G.M.; Lupi, L.; Bighi, S.
La Chirurgia Degli Organi di Movimento 75(2): 129-133
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0009-4749 PMID: 2279416 Document Number: 359087
Three cases of posterior apophyseal fracture of a lumbosacral vertebral body are described. This disco-apophyseal lesion is typical of adolescents and sports-related trauma. Like all acute and chronic apophysiolyses it is probably enhanced by a constitutional weakness of the apophyseal area, closely fused with the anulus fibrosus of the disc.