Surgical treatment of a patient with congenital deformity of the spine, the thoracic and lumbar pedicle aplasia, and spinal compression syndrome

Abstract

The paper presents a case study of surgical treatment of a 14-year-old patient with multiple skeletal malformations, con- genital kyphoscoliosis of the thoracic spine, non-fusion of vertebral arches and vertebral bodies from the C5 to the sacrum (bodies are separated from arches with slit-like defects along the whole length), and spinal compression syndrome.

Keywords

• pedicle aplasia
• congenital kyphoscoliosis
• spinal stenosis
• stereolytographic full-scale model
• surgical treatment