Citation

Sumchai AP, Sternbach GL. Ann. Emerg. Med. 1991; 20(1): 86-89.

Affiliation

Department of Emergency Services, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, California 95128.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, American College of Emergency Physicians, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1984737

Abstract

The "hangman's fracture" in infancy and childhood is a bilateral avulsion of the pedicles or their synchondroses from the C-2 vertebral body, frequently with anterior dislocation of C-2 or C-3. We present the case of the youngest infant in the medical literature with a hangman's fracture and discuss anatomy, kinematics of injury, radiographic diagnosis, and treatment.