Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 12

Anterolateral Versus Posterior Approach in Management of Lower Dorsal and Upper Lumbar Traumatic & Pathological Spine Fractures

  • Author:
  • Mahmoud Ahmed Gomaa1,, Ashraf Abdellatif Osman2, Mohamed Khaled Saadeldin3, Mohamed Abdellatif Hussein2
  • Total Page Count: 6
  • Page Number: 1482 to 1487

1Assistant Lecturer, Neurosurgery Department Faculty of Medicine, Fayoum University, Egypt,

2Lecturer, Neurosurgery Department Faculty of Medicine, Fayoum University, Egypt,

3Professor, Neurosurgery Department Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt

*Corresponding author: Mahmoud Ahmed Gomaa, Assistant Lecturer, Neurosurgery Department, Faculty of Medicine, Fayoum University, Egypt, Email: dr_mah_gomaa2010@yahoo.com

Online published on 4 April, 2020.

Abstract

Comparing anterolateral versus posterior approach in decompression and stabilization of spine.

prospective comparative study.

thirty patients have lower dorsal and upper lumbar spine fractures operated upon in the period from January 2016 to July 2017.

Surgical management of thoracolumbar burst and pathological fractures, Anterolateral approach have not significant superior to posterior approach in terms of recovery neurological function and maintaining normal life activities. Anterior approach was better than posterior approach in rapid improvement of sphincteric control in patients with incomplete cord injury with sphincteric troubles.

Keywords

Thoracolumbar, anterolateral approach, posterior approach, laminectomy, corpectomy