SURGICAL TREATMENT OF THORACOLUMBAR VERTEBRAL FRACTURES
Journal Title: Journal of Turkish Spinal Surgery - Year 1994, Vol 5, Issue 3
Abstract
Conservative treatment of unstable thoracal and lumbar vertebral fractures results in severe local kyphosis or changes in sagittal contours in long term follow-up. This study evaluates 89 thoracolumbar vertebral fractures op-erated between December 1989 and May 1993 in the orthopaedic Clinics of Ankara Sociai Security Hospital. The mean follow-up was 30.2 months with a minimum of 12 months. The stabilization of fractures were maintained with hook-rod construction in 28 patients in whom Cotrel-Dubousset Instrumentation (CDI) was used. Thirty pa-tients had AO Fixator Intern; a transpedicular screw-rod construction. The vertebral fractures in the remainin 31 patients were stabilized with transpedicular screw-reverse hook-rod construction by using Texas Scottish Rite Hospital (TSRH) system. Preoperative sagittal index at the fracture level was 24.7°±6.5° in patients treated with CDI, 25.1°±8.2° with AO Fixator Intern and28.7°±3.4° with TSRH system. Postoperative correction rates for CDI, AOlFand TSRH system were 66.8%±26.7, 68.4~±23.2 and 79.3%±19.5 respectively. Postoperative sagittal index at the thoracolumbar junction were in physiologic limits in ali of the patients treated with TSRH system, while this rate was 70% for the AOIF and 64.3% for CDI. Because that the best spinal canal decompression and the lovvest complication rate was achieved in the TSRH system group, it is concluded that transpedicularscrevv-reverse hook combinations is the best construction type for the stabilization of unstable thoracolumbar fractures.
Authors and Affiliations
Serhan ÖZLÜ, Erbil AYDIN, Mehmet ÇITAK, Mert TÜZÜNER, İ. Teoman BENLİ Serdar AKALIN
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