Orthopedic Journal of China 2009;17(24):1879-1882

Applications of different modified posterior surgeries in thoracolumbar fractures

Weiguang LIN ; Bendan LIN ; Yishan HU

Keywords

thoracolumhar fractures; modified posterior surgery; injured vertebra; bone graft

Country

China

Language

Chinese

Abstract

For the past few years.the number of patients with thoracolumbar fractures increased year after year.With the improvement of surgical instruments and surgical techniques and the health care workers'in-depth study about thoracolumbar fractures,posterior approach treatment of patients with thoracolumbar fractures has achieved an encouraging progress.Now summarization of research progress about operation opportunity,posterior instrumentation and modified posterior surgery is made in this paper.