Ortho Case of the Week – C-Spine
This is all high-yield, but a real pain in the neck.
Case 1: An adult male is BIBEMS after an MVC as the unrestrained driver.
1. What is the diagnosis based on the imaging above?
2. What is the mechanism that results in this pathology?
Case 2: A 22-year-old male is BIBEMS in a c-collar with neck pain after a dive injury.
3. What is the diagnosis based on the imaging above?
4. What is the mechanism that results in this pathology?
Case 3: A 25-year-old male is BIBEMS after an MVC with polytrauma.
5. What is the diagnosis based on the imaging above?
6. What is the mechanism that results in this pathology?
Case 4: A 25-year-old male is BIBEMS after an MCC, unable to move his legs.
7. What is the diagnosis based on the imaging above?
8. What is the mechanism that results in this pathology?
Case 5: A 25-year-old male is BIBEMS after he crashed his mountain bike. He is unable to move any of his extremities.
9. What is the diagnosis based on the imaging above?
10. What is the mechanism that results in this pathology?
Case 6: A 30-year-old male is BIBEMS after an MVC with neck pain. He has no neurologic deficits on exam.
11. What is the diagnosis based on the imaging above?
12. What is the mechanism that results in this pathology?