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Apophyseolysis of the fourth lumbar vertebra: an early postoperative complication following kyphectomy in myelomeningocele

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This is a report of a young girl with congenital kyphosis at the thoracolumbar spine in association with myelomeningocele. Kyphectomy and posterior stabilisation extending from the eighth thoracic to the fourth lumbar vertebra was done. Apophyseolysis occurred as an early postoperative complication at the level of the L4-L5 disc. This failure mode was treated by extending the fusion to the pelvis.

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  1. Department of Orthopaedics, Spinal Surgery and Paraplegia, Zentralklinik Bad Berka, Robert Koch Allee 9, 99437 Bad Berka, Germany e-mail: gf@Zentralklinik-bad-berka.de, Tel.: +49-36458-1401, Fax: +49-36458-5-3517, , , , , , DE

    H. Böhm & Hesham ElSaghir

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Received: 4 November 1999 Revised: 31 January 2000 Accepted: 8 February 2000

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Böhm, H., ElSaghir, H. Apophyseolysis of the fourth lumbar vertebra: an early postoperative complication following kyphectomy in myelomeningocele. E Spine J 9, 586–587 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s005860000136

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