Important fractures

Type of Fracture 

Description

Motor cyclist fracture

Base of skull

Jeffersons fracture

Burst fracture of ring of C1
(atlas vertebrae)

Dens fracture 
(DD - Dens oDontoid)

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)