A modified minimally invasive surgery for thoracic pyogenic spondylitis: Percutaneous pedicle screw fixation in combination with a vertebral debridement in a separate posterolateral approach-A case report

Yuki Sato; Ko Hashimoto; Michiharu Matsuda; Takahiro Onoki; Masayuki Kamimura; Kohei Takahashi; Yoshito Onoda; Daisuke Chiba; Yu Mori; Haruo Kanno; Nobuyuki Yamamoto; Toshimi Aizawa

doi:10.1002/ccr3.6710

A modified minimally invasive surgery for thoracic pyogenic spondylitis: Percutaneous pedicle screw fixation in combination with a vertebral debridement in a separate posterolateral approach-A case report

Clin Case Rep. 2022 Dec 5;10(12):e6710. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.6710. eCollection 2022 Dec.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine Sendai Japan.
² Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Matsuda Hospital Sendai Japan.
³ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University Sendai Japan.

Abstract

In this report, we present a successfully treated case of intractable thoracic pyogenic spondylitis using one-step curettage/bone grafting of spinal anterior segment and less-contaminated percutaneous spinal posterior fixation via separated posterior approaches, which was not compatible with conventional spinal instruments.

Keywords: minimally invasive surgery; percutaneous pedicle screw; pyogenic spondylitis.

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Case Reports