Minimally invasive lumbopelvic instrumentation for traumatic sacrolisthesis in an elderly patient.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We present a novel minimally invasive technique for lumbopelvic instrumentation in selected elderly patients suffering from traumatic sacrolisthesis. An 82-year-old female suffered from sacrolisthesis after a fall. She developed significant low back pain and bilateral lower extremity radiculopathy. Preoperative radiographs and magnetic resonance imaging sequences demonstrated the fracture dislocation between S1 and S2 with compromise of the spinal canal. Lumbopelvic instrumentation was sought to offer fixation and allow mobilization; however, open lumbopelvic instrumentation techniques have significant morbidity, especially in this patient population of elderly patients with medical comorbidities.

Methods

A minimally invasive technique employing percutaneous pedicle

SUBMITTER: Wind JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3369042 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature