A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Transverse fracture of the body of a vertebra. Oblique fracture of the body of a vertebra. fractures the line of the fracture is generally from behind forward, andfrom above downward. The upper fragment is almost always that whichsuffers displacement; sometimes being simply driven downward, and thusmade to penetrate more or less the lower fragment; at other times, as incertain transverse fractures, it is only displaced forward, and in still otherexamples, where the fracture is oblique, the upper fragment is displacedboth downward and forward
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations . Transverse fracture of the body of a vertebra. Oblique fracture of the body of a vertebra. fractures the line of the fracture is generally from behind forward, andfrom above downward. The upper fragment is almost always that whichsuffers displacement; sometimes being simply driven downward, and thusmade to penetrate more or less the lower fragment; at other times, as incertain transverse fractures, it is only displaced forward, and in still otherexamples, where the fracture is oblique, the upper fragment is displacedboth downward and forward (Fig. 61). In the first and last of these examplesthe spine becomes bent forward at the point of fracture, producing an angleof which the most salient point posteriorly is represented by the extremityof the spinous process belonging to the broken vertebra; in the second 1 Chedevergne, Mem. de lAcad. de Med., Paris, 1869-70, torn. 29, p. 73. FRACTURES OF THE BODIES OF THE VERTEBRAE. 149 example the spinous process of the broken vertebra is depresse
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