[Local vertebral body destruction after migration of a nucleus replacement]

Z Orthop Unfall. 2007 Sep-Oct;145(5):649-51. doi: 10.1055/s-2007-965663.
[Article in German]

Abstract

We present the case report of a 32-year-old female suffering from severe low back pain because of local vertebral body destruction at L3/4 after migration of PDN-SOLO nucleus replacement. Removal of the dislocated implant via a posterior transforaminal approach was not possible. After posterior stabilisation the implant could be salvaged from the anterior direction, but stabilisation with a vertebral body replacement was necessary.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Back Pain / etiology
  • Back Pain / surgery
  • Device Removal
  • Female
  • Foreign-Body Migration / diagnosis*
  • Foreign-Body Migration / surgery
  • Humans
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Intervertebral Disc / pathology
  • Intervertebral Disc / surgery*
  • Lumbar Vertebrae / injuries*
  • Lumbar Vertebrae / pathology
  • Lumbar Vertebrae / surgery
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Nerve Compression Syndromes / surgery
  • Pain Measurement
  • Postoperative Complications / diagnosis*
  • Postoperative Complications / surgery
  • Prosthesis Failure*
  • Prosthesis Implantation*
  • Recurrence
  • Reoperation
  • Spinal Fusion
  • Spinal Nerve Roots / surgery
  • Spinal Osteophytosis / diagnosis
  • Spinal Osteophytosis / surgery*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed