Oral extrusion of a vertebral body replacement device after chordoma tumor growth and radiation: case report and review

BACKGROUND: Screw migration following anterior cervical discectomy and fusion is a very rare complication and it is often related to device failure. Even more exceptional is the extrusion of an intervertebral graft. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the second case of migration and extrusion through the...

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Autores principales: Gutiérrez-González, Raquel, Zamarrón, Álvaro, Ortega, Celia, Hamre, Frank, Kalantari, Teresa, Rodríguez-Boto, Gregorio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8783500/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35065621
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12893-022-01481-7
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: Screw migration following anterior cervical discectomy and fusion is a very rare complication and it is often related to device failure. Even more exceptional is the extrusion of an intervertebral graft. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the second case of migration and extrusion through the oral cavity of a cervical vertebral body replacement device (expandable cylinder) in a patient that had undergone cervical corpectomy due to a vertebral chordoma. CONCLUSION: The antecedent of radiation therapy as well as progressive tumor re-growth may have favored the development of this complication. A literature review is added.

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