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Fixation With Vertebral Prosthesis Following Vertebral Fracture In Ankylosing Spondylitis : A Casereport, Tieh-Cheng Fu, Chin-Man Wang, Pao-Tsai Cheng, Shih-Wei Chou, Fuk-Tan Tang, Alice M. K. Wong

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

The subject patient was a case of ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Because of recurrent fine vertebral fracture combined with pseudoarthrosis and neurological deficiency, the patient had received several conventional surgical interventions over ten years. A year before the present admission, the patient suffered lower limbs weakness and received surgical intervention with thoracic corpectomy and fixation with vertebral prosthesis, anterior spinal instrumentation and posterior fusion with pedicle screw at Stanford hospital in the U.S.A. The patient tolerated the procedure well and achieved some improvement in his leg sensation and muscle power. The patient then returned to Taiwan for rehabilitation therapy at Chang-Gung …