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STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective case series. OBJECTIVE: To report our experience with corpectomy of the thoracolumbar (TL) spine through a minimally invasive lateral retropleural or retroperitoneal approach. METHODS: This is a retrospective case series of 20 consecutive patients who underwent minimally invasive TL corpectomy and spinal reconstruction. Electronic medical records were reviewed for demographic, operative, and clinical outcome data. RESULTS: Between 2015 and 2019, 20 consecutive cases of minimally invasive TL corpectomy were performed, comprising 12 men (60%) and 8 women (40%) with a mean age of 54.3 years. Indications for surgery were infection (n = 6, 30%), metastatic disease (n = 2, 10%), fracture (n = 6, 30%), and calcified disc herniation (n = 6, 30%). Partial and complete corpectomy was performed in 5 patients (25%) and 15 patients (75%), respectively. Mean operative time and estimated blood loss was 276.2 minutes and 558.4 mL, respectively. Mean length of stay from admission and surgery were 14.6 and 11.4 days, respectively. Mean length of stay from surgery for elective cases was 4.2 days. Mean follow-up time was 330.4 days. Visual analogue scale score improved from 7.7 to 4.5 (P < .01). There were a total of 3 postoperative complications in 2 patients, including 1 mortality for urosepsis. One patient had revision spinal surgery for adjacent segment disease. CONCLUSIONS: Corpectomy and reconstruction of the TL spine is feasible and safe using a minimally invasive lateral retropleural or retroperitoneal approach. Since this is a relatively new technique, more studies are needed to compare the short- and long-term radiographic and clinical outcomes between minimally invasive versus open corpectomy of the TL spine.
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This study assessed damage to the gluteus medius tendon insertion when performing trochanteric nailing with either a reconstruction nail or a cephalomedullary nail. Ten cadavers were randomized to receive proximal reaming for either a reconstruction nail or cephalomedullary nail; the contralateral hip served as an internal control. One specimen was found to have a displaced femoral neck fracture and was excluded from data analysis. Reconstruction nailing led to tendon damage in 4 of 9 hips, compared to 8 of 9 with hip fracture nailing (p = 0.29). In the reconstruction nail group, the average amount of tendon damaged was 3% (range 0-10%), while in the hip fracture nail group, the average was 15% (range 0-20.3%) (p = 0.0003). Open reaming for placement of a reconstruction nail caused less gluteus medius tendon damage when compared to open reaming for placement of a hip fracture nail. (Journal of Surgical Orthopaedic Advances 29(2):77-80, 2020).
