| Autor: |
Gershon-Cohen, J., Budin, Earl, Glauser, Frank |
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JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association; June 1954, Vol. 155 Issue: 6 p560-561, 2p |
| Abstrakt: |
Fractures of the spinous processes in the cervicodorsal area have been termed "clay shoveler's fracture"1 or Schipperkrankheit2 in Germany where, in connection with the building of the superhighways, these fractures were recorded frequently. Favoring their occurrence was the unpreparedness for manual labor of the young German workers mustered into labor battalions from various sedentary walks of life. The American experience is different because road building is done with our own peculiar type of labor-saving equipment. More anomalous, however, is the likelihood of a rising incidence of spinous process fractures among passengers on our own superhighways, resembling those of the manual workers on the older German Autobahnen.3Among 480 x-ray examinations of the neck in our files, 38 cases were found with isolated or multiple calcareous deposits or fragments near the cervicodorsal spinous processes. A history of an automobile collision was disclosed in 14 of these cases. Not |
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