until basic knowledge of fracture anatomy and stability includes experiments with comminuted anterior column injuries , posterior column injuries , and these injuries in combination with ligament and capsular injuries , and until the long-term implications of the long fusion in an otherwise healthy patient are fully known , clinicians making decisions about individual patients must assemble all the variables that bear on the patient 's ability to heal and become fully functional again before making a decision about surgical stabilization of the thoracolumbar fracture .
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fracture
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comminuted