Important fractures

Type of Fracture 

Description

Motor cyclist fracture

Base of skull

Jeffersons fracture

Burst fracture of ring of C1
(atlas vertebrae)

Dens fracture 

Odontoid process (C2 vertebrae) fracture

 Hangmans fracture 
(PYQ: UPSC CMS 2024)

Fracture of both pedicle of
C2 vertebrae 

Undertakers fracture 

Subluxion of lower cervical spine

Clay-shovellers fracture

Avulsion fracture of tip of spinous
process of C7, T1

Holdsworth fracture

Unstable spinal fracture dislocation
at thoraco lumbar region 

 Chance fracture / Seatbelt fracture 

(due to excessive flexion of spine)

Horizontal fracture running across all
three column of spinal cord (anterior,
middle & posterior column)