%0 Journal Article
%T Sequential traumatic cervical fractures after paragliding accidents - a case report and literature review
%J Surgical neurology international
%D 2021
%A Pereira, Catarina Silva
%A Lopes, António Lemos
%A Rodrigues-Pinto, Ricardo
%V 12
%N 
%P e47-e47
%X BACKGROUND: Sports related cervical spine trauma may range from minor injuries to severe life-threatening fractures with spinal cord injuries as following paragliding accidents. CASE DESCRIPTION: A 52-year-old male sustained C4-C5 and C6-C7 fracture-dislocations (American Spinal Injury Association-D) attributed to a paragliding accident. He underwent a C5 corpectomy with C4-C6 anterior fusion. Three years later, he again sustained a paragliding accident, now resulting in a C6-C7 fracture-dislocation that required a C6-C7 anterior discectomy fusion. However, when this latter fusion "failed" 1 month later, he subsequently required a 360° fusion performed as a two-stage procedure. Further, 2 years later, he was involved in a motor vehicle accident resulting in an odontoid fracture. <br><br>CONCLUSION: Unstable spinal fractures require surgical fixation to prevent neurological injury. Long cervical fusions create lever arms that increase the stress to adjacent levels, rendering them prone to future injury.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
%G en
%I Medknow Publishing
%@ 2229-5097
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/SNI_761_2020