戢涛　蔡林　邓超华　钱崇升

Thoracolumbar old fractures with kyphotic deformity could cause local pain and neurological deficits, and by the time it often needed surgical intervention. However, the operative method and the vertebral body alternative choice also varied. What kind of surgical treatment to choose for this kind of disease had always been a difficult problem. Moreover, vertebral body resection should be carried out during the operation, and after that the spinal stability often should be rebuilt. Artificial vertebral body replacement was one of the many choices. In 2011, a patient who had thoracolumbar-12 old fractures with kyphotic deformity was adopted by our hospital. Now the treatment procedure was reported as follows.