Treatment of Cervical Spine Fracture in a Patient with Bekhterev’s Disease | Zendy

И. А. Норкин | Zendy; А. A. Chekhonatsky | Zendy; В. Г. Нинель | Zendy; Vladimir Ostrovsky | Zendy

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Treatment of Cervical Spine Fracture in a Patient with Bekhterev’s Disease

Author(s) -

И. А. Норкин,

А. A. Chekhonatsky,

В. Г. Нинель,

Vladimir Ostrovsky

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

russian journal of spine surgery (khirurgiya pozvonochnika)

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.138

H-Index - 3

eISSN - 2313-1497

pISSN - 1810-8997

DOI - 10.14531/ss2007.2.23-25

Subject(s) - tetraparesis , medicine , surgery , displacement (psychology) , cervical spine , cervical fracture , spinal cord , radiology , magnetic resonance imaging , psychology , psychiatry , psychotherapist

A case of patient with Bekhterev’s disease who has got a closed trauma of the cervical spine involving C6 transverse fracture with anterior displacement and tilting of a vertebral body fragment, spinal cord compression and contusion, which caused severe tetraparesis. Surgical treatment included anterior spinal fusion with autograft and instrumentation and resulted in early mobilization and rehabilitation of the patient.

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