Factors predicting long-term outcome after short-segment posterior fixation for traumatic thoracolumbar fractures
Open Access
- 1 January 2017
- journal article
- Published by Scientific Scholar in Surgical Neurology International
- Vol. 8 (1), 233
- https://doi.org/10.4103/sni.sni_244_17
Abstract
Patients with thoracolumbar facture dislocations, subjected to axial spinal loading postoperatively, should not be considered for SSPF alone. The following factors also contributed to SSPF failures: a burst fracture, a preoperative LSC score of >6, and/or presence of transverse dislocation.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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