Fractures of the lumbar spine
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M. Härkönen; M. Kataja; L. Keski-Nisula; T. Paakkala; H. Pätiälä; P. Rokkanen
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Article
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1979
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Springer
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English
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Sixty-six (70 per cent) of 94 patients with fracture of the lumbar spine (L2-L5), treated at the Central Hospital of Tampere in 1968--1975, were seen after an average interval of 5 years and 4 months. The mean age of the patients at the time of injury was 40.4 years. Somewhat less than half the frac