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Hey Clinic Sep 13 2007 AM Surgery: New “QUAD ROD” technique for stabilizing thoracic kyphotic fracture with history of rod breakage.

Yesterday morning, September 13th 2007, we helped a Nancy, a 75 yo woman who had a T12 severe wedge fracture above a previous fusion which caused myelopathy and severe pain. This was fixed using a laminectomy, and extension instrumentation and fusion. Postoperatively, she had trouble with rod breakages at that high load area around T12, […]

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