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Hangman's fracture: A broken neck involving a fracture of an upper cervical vertebra similar to the injury suffered in death by hanging. The fracture always affects the vertebra called the axis -- the second cervical vertebra (C2) -- with or without subluxation (slippage) of C2 on C3. A hangman's fracture often causes death by suffocation, as nearly occurred to the actor/director Christopher Reeves when he was injured in an equestrian accident.
Hangman's fracture: A broken neck involving a fracture of an upper cervical vertebra similar to the injury suffered in death by hanging. The fracture always affects the ...
- term "hangman's fracture" is not accurate for the majority of cases, because mechanism of ... - injury involves a combination of flexion and distraction; - injury is ...
A hangman’s fracture is the common name for a “broken neck” or a fracture of the pedicles (that connect the body of a vertebrae to an arch) or the bony mass ...
Craniocervical junction injuries are the deadliest. Atlantooccipital and atlantoaxial dissociation Hangman fracture ... 1964, wherein the term "hangman's fracture ...
... as the hangman puts the knot under the chin to produce maximal extension-force. That is why we discuss the hangman' s fracture in the chapter on hyperextension injuries.