TY - CHAP
T1 - Six level cervico-thoracic circumferential reconstruction
T2 - Report of the second case of the literature
AU - Massimiliano, Visocchi
AU - Giulio, Maira
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Anterior cervical corpectomy from C2 to T1 is being used to decompress the spinal cord and reconstruct the cervical spine. It is a well recognized treatment for degenerative, traumatic, tumoral, infectious cervical stenosis and/or instability. It has the advantage of allowing a thorough decompression and also improves fusion rates in cases in which multilevel decompression is needed. In order to overcome the potential drawbacks of structural bone graft it is possible to use titanium plates and mesh cages with good results. The inconstant stability rate of the construct, with or without anterior plate, can justify supplementary posterior instrumentation in order to obtain circumferential reconstruction. The author reports the successful outcome of a six-level-corpectomy across the spine with circumferential reconstruction in a patient with extensive chordoma of the cervical and upper thoracic spine. To the author's knowledge this is the second report of a corpectomy extending across six levels of the cervico-thoracic spine.
AB - Anterior cervical corpectomy from C2 to T1 is being used to decompress the spinal cord and reconstruct the cervical spine. It is a well recognized treatment for degenerative, traumatic, tumoral, infectious cervical stenosis and/or instability. It has the advantage of allowing a thorough decompression and also improves fusion rates in cases in which multilevel decompression is needed. In order to overcome the potential drawbacks of structural bone graft it is possible to use titanium plates and mesh cages with good results. The inconstant stability rate of the construct, with or without anterior plate, can justify supplementary posterior instrumentation in order to obtain circumferential reconstruction. The author reports the successful outcome of a six-level-corpectomy across the spine with circumferential reconstruction in a patient with extensive chordoma of the cervical and upper thoracic spine. To the author's knowledge this is the second report of a corpectomy extending across six levels of the cervico-thoracic spine.
KW - Cervical spine
KW - Cervico
KW - Chordoma
KW - Circumferential fixation
KW - Corpectomy
KW - Thoracic reconstruction
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-211-99370-5_28
DO - 10.1007/978-3-211-99370-5_28
M3 - Chapter
C2 - 21107957
AN - SCOPUS:79952279314
SN - 9783211993699
T3 - Acta Neurochirurgica, Supplementum
SP - 187
EP - 190
BT - Acta Neurochirurgica, Supplementum
ER -