Mossakowski Medical Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Bielanski Hospital,
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Case Report
Emergency (Ad Hoc) Stabilization of The Anterior Vertebral Column with Two Combined Synex Implants After Two-Level Vertebrectomy L2 and L3. Case Report and the Technique Description
Author(s): Jaroslaw Andrychowski, Pawel Dabe, Zbigniew Czernicki and Piotr JasielskiJaroslaw Andrychowski, Pawel Dabe, Zbigniew Czernicki and Piotr Jasielski
Case report of the patient who underwent two-stage surgical treatment due to pathological fracture of vertebral column (L3 due neoplasm infiltration) in the course of kidney cancer is presented. Decompression of vertebral canal from the posterior approach in lumbar segment (L3 and partially L2) was performed due to sudden neurological functions impairment. Lumbar segment of vertebral column was stabilized via the transpedicular approach with Clix system (Synthes). In the second stage anterior approach via laparotomy was performed, urological team excised the kidney tumour, the next team vascular surgeon and neurosurgeon, performed resection of L3 and L2 vertebras (L3 was pathological fractured and compressed of cauda equine structures, L2 was partially cancer infiltrated). During the attempt of anterior column stabilization it was found, that the longest vertebral prosthesis of Synex .. Read More»
DOI:
10.4172/2165-7939.1000101
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