Complete cage migration/subsidence into the adjacent vertebral body after posterior lumbar interbody fusion. Issue 3 (March 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Corniola, Marco V.; Jägersberg, Max; Stienen, Martin N.; Gautschi, Oliver P.
• Is Part Of: Journal of clinical neuroscience. Volume 22:Issue 3(2015:Mar.)
• Page Start: 597
• Page End: 598
• Publication Date: 2015-03
• Subjects: Brain -- Surgery -- Periodicals; Neurosciences -- Periodicals; Nervous system -- Surgery -- Periodicals; Brain -- surgery -- Periodicals; Neurosurgical Procedures -- Periodicals; Neurosciences -- Periodicals; Electronic journals; 616.8
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2014.08.017
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0967-5868

Abstract

<abstract xml:lang="en" abstract-type="author" id="ab010"> <title id="st050">Abstract</title> <sec> <p id="sp0010">A variety of implant-related short and long-term complications after lumbar fusion surgery are recognized. Mid to long-term complications due to cage migration and/or cage subsidence are less frequently reported. Here, we report a patient with a complete cage migration into the superior adjacent vertebral body almost 20 years after the initial posterior lumbar interbody fusion procedure. In this patient, the cage migration/subsidence was clinically silent, but a selective decompression for adjacent segment degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis was performed. We discuss the risk factors for cage migration/subsidence in view of the current literature.</p> </sec> </abstract>