Surgical Treatment of Multiple Osteoporotic Fractures of the Dorsolumbar Spine: Case Report

• Author(s): Marques, RR ; Moura, DL ; Lourenço, P
• Date: 2021
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.4/2324
• Origin: Repositório do Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra
• Subject(s): Fracturas por Osteoporose/cirurgia
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): RIHUC

Description

Osteoporotic vertebral fractures are a common type of fracture and affect a significant number of subjects with osteoporosis. Despite the high fracture risk, the concomitant occurrence of vertebral fractures at non-contiguous levels is very rare. We report the case of a patient with three burst dorsolumbar spine fractures at non-contiguous levels who was treated with percutaneous kyphoplasty and transpedicular posterior fixation. Six months after the surgery, the patient walks autonomously and without pain; in addition, there is no radiological evidence of fracture reduction loss.