1. Kyphoplasty for the treatment of an atypical osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture of the lumbar spine: A case report
- Author
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Leon Anijar, Rishi R. Agarwal, and Sanjeev Kumar
- Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty ,Osteoporosis ,Pain relief ,Case Report ,Anesthesia/pain ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Older patients ,kyphoplasty ,medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Clinical scenario ,vertebral compression fracture ,030222 orthopedics ,lcsh:R5-920 ,myasthenia gravis ,business.industry ,Vertebral compression fracture ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,paraplegic ,osteoporosis ,Surgery ,FIrst lumbar vertebral body ,Lumbar spine ,business ,lcsh:Medicine (General) ,steroids - Abstract
Vertebral augmentation is a minimally invasive but sometimes technically challenging intervention typically reserved for the treatment of older patients with painful vertebral compression fractures due to osteoporosis or neoplasms. We report the successful treatment of osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures of the first lumbar vertebral body (L1) using kyphoplasty in a paraplegic young patient with multiple comorbidities. Despite the unusual and complicated clinical scenario, kyphoplasty was nonetheless performed with immediate and lasting pain relief.
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- 2017