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Editorial
. 2024 Feb;14(1_suppl):4S-7S.
doi: 10.1177/21925682231216584. Epub 2023 Nov 22.

From Radiographic Evaluation to Treatment Decisions in Neurologically Intact Patients With Thoraco-lumbar Burst Fractures

Marcel F Dvorak, Cumhur F Öner, Klaus Schnake, Charlotte Dandurand, Sander Muijs
Editorial

From Radiographic Evaluation to Treatment Decisions in Neurologically Intact Patients With Thoraco-lumbar Burst Fractures

Marcel F Dvorak et al. Global Spine J. 2024 Feb.

Abstract

We propose that the key to improving care for these patients is to truly understand the processes that take place from the interpretation of radiographic findings, through the assessment of the severity of various injuries, to inclusion within a classification category and finally to selecting a specific treatment.

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Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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