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Indications for Surgical Intervention
Оглавление• Spinal stenosis
• No improvement after nonoperative therapy (physical therapy, pain management)
• Partial paraplegia
• Residual spinal compression
• Existence of blunt chest trauma or potential hemorrhagic lesions
• Unstable patterns of fracture
• Sufficient disruption of supporting ligaments
• Transthoracic/Transsternal approaches:
– Partial injury of thoracic cord
– Anterior compression
– No intraspinal displacement of posterior bone elements
– Anterior spinal cord syndrome with partial or complete myelographic spinal block
– Thoracic disk disease
– Vertebral osteomyelitis of diskitis