97. Vertebrectomy with Fusion

Total L1 Vertebrectomy With T12-to-L2 Fusion in a Case of Burst Fracture

Methods: A 26-year-old male patient presented with a posttraumatic L1 vertebra fracture and total paraplegia. Three weeks after corpectomy plus otogenic bone grafting plus instrumentation by an anterolateral approach, the patient, who had 3-column injury, developed a treatment-resistant deep wound infection. In the fourth week of antibiotic treatment after the onset of the infection, there was ...

Posterior Vertebrectomy and Circumferential Fusion for the Treatment of Advanced Thoracolumbar Kümmell Disease with Neurologic Deficit

STUDY DESIGN Single-center, retrospective case series. PURPOSE To investigate the effectiveness of posterior vertebrectomy and circumferential fusion in patients with advanced Kümmell disease with neurologic deficit. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Various surgical options exist for the treatment of Kümmell disease, and determination of the appropriate treatment is based on the clinical and radiolog...

Posterior Vertebrectomy for High Thoracic and Cervico-thoracic Vertebral Tumours

Total Vertebrectomy for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

We present a case who had left upper lobectomy with total vertebrectomy after arterial embolization in preparation for intraoperative bleeding. A 35-year-old man complained of left back pain. Chest CT revealed a tumor in S1+2 of the left lung, invading the third thoracic vertebra. As no nodal or distant metastasis was detected, we performed left upper lobectomy and lymph node dissection (ND2a-2...

Total or partial vertebrectomy for lung cancer invading the spine

BACKGROUND Surgery for lung cancer invading the spine remains challenging associated with high morbidity and mortality. However, recent advances in surgical techniques as well as in perioperative care may improve outcomes of lung cancer surgery with vertebrectomy. We describe our surgical approach and assess the outcome lung cancer invading the spine. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed our r...