The purpose of this prospective study was to assess the functional outcome of conservative treatment with early ambulation of thoracolumbar burst fractures, using the Load Sharing classification. From 1997 to 2001, 60 consecutive patients with single-level thoracolumbar spinal injury, with no neurological impairment, were classified according to the Load Sharing scoring and were managed non-ope...

Objective: Vertebroplasty is a method that stabilizes the fracture and relieves pain by injecting cement into vertebral body has lost its height for some reason. Cement injection can also be done through kyphoplasty cannulated screw. During injection, protrusion of cementum from corpus complication must avoided in this procedure. extending out may cause pulmonary embolism (PCE) via azygos vein....

BACKGROUND To evaluate the safety and effectiveness of pedicle screw fixation for treatment of thoracolumbar fracture via Wiltse paraspinal approach. METHODS From June 2009 to June 2012, we enrolled into our study 53 cases of thoracolumbar fractures (single segment compressive or burst fractures) without neurologic injury, among whom 28 were treated by mini-open operation via Wiltse approach ...

STUDY DESIGN This is a retrospective, consecutive case series, with the index patient included. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the evolution and effectiveness of instrumentation techniques designed to untwist the scoliosis deformity. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Three-dimensional studies of the idiopathic scoliosis deformity are consistent with the theory that the deformity or deformities evolve as a...

OBJECTIVE For improving the drawbacks of previous thoracolumbar spine trauma classification, the Spine Trauma Study Group was developed new classification, Thoracolumbar Injury Classification and Severity Score (TLICS). The simplicity of this scoring system makes it useful clinical application. However, considering criteria of Korean Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA), the us...

OBJECTIVES This article reviews the prevalence of lumbarisation, sacralisation and lumbar ribs, and their morphological relevance by evaluating multi-slice computed tomography (MSCT) images. These segment variations can cause miscounting of vertebrae at the lumbar spinal level. METHODS A retrospective radiographic analysis of 226 cases scanned by MSCT prior to forensic autopsy was undertaken....

The objective of the present study was to investigate whether transpedicular bone grafting as a supplement to posterior pedicle screw fixation in thoracolumbar fractures results in a stable reconstruction of the anterior column, that allows healing of the fracture without loss of correction. Posterior instrumentation using an internal fixator is a standard procedure for stabilizing the injured ...