Screw fixation without fusion for low lumbar chance fracture accompanied by spinal epidural hematoma in patient with ankylosing spondylitis

April 25, 2023

doi: 10.1186/s12891-023-06428-4.

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Dae Kyun Kim et al.

BMC Musculoskelet Disord.

2023.

doi: 10.1186/s12891-023-06428-4.

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¹ Department of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, Chosun University, 365 Pilmun-daero, Dong-gu, Gwangju, 61453, Republic of Korea.
² Department of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, Chosun University, 365 Pilmun-daero, Dong-gu, Gwangju, 61453, Republic of Korea. [email protected].

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Abstract

Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory disease involving the sacroiliac joint and axial spine. AS may render the ankylosed spine prone to trauma and cause an increased frequency of associated epidural hematomas in spine fractures. Herein, we report a rare case of L5 chance fracture and epidural hematoma in a 27-year-old female patient with AS. She was treated surgically but without bone fusion or decompressive laminectomy due to the neurologically intact status despite significant neural compression by the spinal epidural hematoma (SEH). We believe that conservative treatment with close observation of neurological status may be effective in SEH presenting with mild neurological symptoms despite significant neural compression.

Keywords:

Ankylosing spondylitis; Chance fracture; Epidural hematoma.

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