We describe a method of obtaining a biopsy from the body of a vertebra by an open transpedicular route. This minimises the danger of contamination of tissue planes and spaces.

There are many medical conditions like osteoporosis, tumor, or osteonecrosis that weaken the structural strength of the vertebral body and prone it to fracture. Percutaneous vertebral augmentation that is usually applied by polymethylmethacrylate is a relatively safe, effective, and long lasting procedure commonly performed in these situations. In this paper, we updated a review of biomechanics...

INTRODUCTION While thoracolumbar fractures are common lesions, no strong consensus is available at the moment. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the results of a minimal invasive strategy using percutaneous instrumentation and anterior approach in the management of thoracolumbar unstable fractures. METHODS 39 patients were included in this retrospective study. Radiologic eval...

BACKGROUND Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is a radiation technique used in patients with oligometastatic lung disease. Lung and chest wall toxicities have been described in the patients but pathological vertebral fracture is an adverse effect no reported in patients treated with SBRT for lung metastases. CASE PRESENTATION A 68-year-old woman with the diagnosis of a recurrence of a...

BACKGROUND The cross-section of thoracolumbar vertebral body is kidney-shaped with depressed posterior boundary. The anterior wall of the vertebral canal is separated from the posterior wall of the vertebral body on the lateral X-ray image. This study was designed to determine the sagittal distance between the anterior border of the vertebral canal and the posterior border of the vertebral body...

INTRODUCTION For patients with a solitary and well-delimitated spinal metastasis that resides inside the vertebral body, without vertebral canal invasion, and who are in good general health with a long life expectancy, en bloc spondylectomy/total vertebrectomy combined with the use of primary stabilizing instrumentation has been advocated. However, clinical experience suggests that these qualif...

We retrospectively evaluated the results after corporectomy and vertebral body replacement in 40 patients with thoracic or lumbar spine collapse due to tumour osteolysis, unstable fractures, spondylodiscitis and Paget's disease. They underwent posterior transpedicular instrumentation followed 7 to 21 days later by vertebral body replacement with a distractible device, the "Obelisc" cage, filled...

BACKGROUND A patient with multiple open lumbar procedures, the most recent of which was complicated by symptomatic pulmonary embolus, underwent placement of an inferior vena cava filter (IVCF). Two years after placement, she developed low back pain with radicular symptoms. CT of the lumbar spine demonstrated vertebral body erosion from the IVCF strut. In this brief report, we describe L2 verteb...