Unpacking the differing approaches to thoracolumbar burst fractures treatment on the two sides of the Atlantic—from controversy to consensus?

BY DR KLAUS SCHNAKE AND DR GREGORY SCHROEDER

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Previous milestones of the global Thoracolumbar Burst Fractures (AOSpine TLA3-A4) in Neurologically Intact Patients study and its participating centers in the AO Spine Newsletter (2018). ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02827214.

(*) Wood KB, Li W, Lebl DR, Ploumis A. Management of thoracolumbar spine fractures. Spine J. 2014 Jan;14(1):145-64. doi: 10.1016/j.spinee.2012.10.041. Erratum in: Spine J. 2014 Aug 1;14(8):A18. Lebl, Darren S [corrected to Lebl, Darren R]. PMID: 24332321.

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