Lu Chang, Chen Fei, Lü Guo-hua
Department of Spine Surgery, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha 410011, China.
Hunan Yi Ke Da Xue Xue Bao. 2002 Dec 28;27(6):525-6.
To describe the clinic results and advantages of anterior decompression and reconstruction in the treatment of thoraco-lumbar burst fractures.
Sixty-seven cases with the thoraco-lumbar fractures accompanied with the compression of the spinal cord were treated by anterior decompression and internal fixation. The Frankel impair scale of preoperation and postoperation was observed.
The follow-up was 30.1 month in average. All postoperation spinal alignments were good. No secondary kyphnosis occurred; in 95.4% of the patients, the Frankel score rose more than one degree.
Anterior decompression is complete and anterior reconstruction is strong, and both are fit to spinal biomechanical characteristics.