Bilateral fracture of L5 pedicles in a patient with total disc replacement of L5-S1: a case report

Report of a rare complication - fracture of the pedicles - in a patient with total disc replacement of L5-S1, a surgical resolution, and a biomechanical explanation. To the authors' knowledge, there is only one previous report of bilateral fracture of the pedicles in the literature, as a compli...

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Main Authors: Jorge Alberto De Haro Estrada, Javier Ramos Fernandez, Juan Carlos Alvarez Garnier, Michael Dittmar Johnson, Francisco Cruz Lopez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Coluna (SBC) 2014-01-01
Series:Coluna/Columna
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1808-18512014000200153&lng=en&tlng=en