Introduction: CL, aged 12 years and 4 months, suffered multiple thoracic spine fractures in an accident as a rider in motorbike competition reporting T7 body fracture with anterior wedging associated with displaced left pedicle fracture at level of vertebral body-pedicle union, pedicle was displaced inside vertebral canal completely obliterating sub arachnoid space. There were associated T5, T6, T8, T9, T10 body wedge fractures. Imaging shown no sign of spinal cord lesion. Clinical exam shown no nervous deficits.
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