In medicine the<unk>  is an unstable fracture dislocation of the thoraco lumbar junction of the spine. The injury comprises a fracture through a vertebral body, rupture of the posterior spinal ligaments and fractures of the facet joints. The injury was described by Frank Wild<unk>  in 1963. He described the mechanism of this injury as a flexion-rotation injury, and said that the unstable fracture dislocation should be treated by fusion of the two affected vertebrae.
Holdsworth fracture
Bosworth fracture
Rolando fracture
Smith fracture
Jefferson fracture
Hume fracture
Duverney fracture
Holstein–Lewis fracture