Abstract
Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis may require surgical treatment for extreme curvature of the spine or loss of pulmonary function. We present a report of a 31-year-old woman with a history of scoliosis and anterolateral spinal fusion who developed chest pain and hemoptysis. Imaging revealed that a fixation rod had migrated cephalad, penetrating the diaphragm into the left lower lobe of the lung. The hardware was removed and lung repaired with good results. This is the first reported case of cranial spinal rod migration over a decade after initial implantation.
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Song, K.J., Colman, M., Myers, J.A. et al. Transdiaphragmatic Migration of a Spinal Fixation Rod into the Lung. Lung 196, 369–371 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00408-018-0104-z
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