Transforaminal Posterior Approach Is Effective for Treatment of Lower Thoracic Spine Spondylodiscitis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with lower-thoracic spine pathologies that affect anterior column stability and compress the neural tissues need anterior decompression and reconstruction. Anterior approaches result in long-term morbidities. Posterior laminectomy and fixation alone may not be sufficient to maintain spine stability.

Questions/purposes

To evaluate the results of a posterior-only transforaminal thoracic interbody fusion approach for patients with thoracic disc space infection in terms of the improvement in neurologic status, resolution of infection, correction of kyphotic deformity, and assessment of post-operative complications.

Methods

A prospective study was done on 40 patients with lower thoracic spine spondylodiscitis. All patients were assessed with pre-operati

SUBMITTER: Ibrahim F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7749920 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature