Table 3.

Incidence of criteria leading to exclusion of patients from the study

Reason of exclusion	Non-operative	Dorsal	Dorsoventral
Neurologic deficit	3	12	55
Cerebral trauma	2	23	12
Blunt chest or abdominal trauma	4	11	18
Pelvic injury	1	9	13
Additional/multilevel spinal trauma	6	10	19
Severe trauma of the limbs (f.e. disabling joint injury)	2	33	26
Concomitant internal disease	28	5	10
Mental disorders	26	8	4
Age < 18 or > 65 years	361	2	1