title: 20-Year-Follow up of Treatment Using Spine Osteotomy and Halo-pelvic Traction for Tuberculous Kyphosis - A Case Report -.
abstract: A 23-year-old male whose medical history included tuberculous spondylitis presented with a kyphotic deformity and incomplete paraplegia of twenty days duration. Preoperative radiographs demonstrated a T12-L4 kyphotic Cobb's angle of 100 degrees with a complete block showing on the lumbar myelogram at L4-5. The patient underwent anterior osteotomy and release. After the operation, a halo-pelvic apparatus was fit onto the patient, and distraction was begun. After distraction for 2 months, posterior osteotomy and release was performed for final correction, and distraction was maintained for another three weeks. Finally, the kyphotic deformity was corrected to a Cobb's angle of 62 degrees from T12 to L4. Supplementary anterior fusion was done, and the apparatus was removed after consolidation of the fusion mass.Even twenty years after correction of a tuberculous kyphosis, he had no neurological deterioration, and could work as a farmer using agricultural machines. Correction angle and sagittal balance were well maintained.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Nam-Hyun
authors.initials: NH
authors.lastname: Kim
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authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Seong-Hwan
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Moon
authors.forename: Hwan-Mo
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Lee
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