In medicine the Holdsworth fracture is an unstable fracture dislocation of the thoraco lumbar junction of the spine.
The injury comprises a fracture through a vertebral body, rupture of the posterior spinal ligaments and fractures of the facet joints.
[1] The injury was described by Frank Wild Holdsworth in 1963.
He described the mechanism of this injury as a flexion-rotation injury, and said that the unstable fracture dislocation should be treated by fusion of the two affected vertebrae.
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