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Successful Treatment of a Three-Column Thoracic Extension Injury with Recumbency

We report a unique instance of a 66-year-old male patient with an unstable three-column thoracic extension injury at the level of T4/5 who was treated with recumbency and bracing without surgery. A posterior long segment fixation was attempted three times on two separate occasions over the course of...

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Autores principales: Choy, Winward, Smith, Zachary A, Viljoen, Stephanus V, Lindley, Timothy E, Dahdaleh, Nader S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4914062/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27335719
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.614