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SUBMITTER: Pitta M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5712024 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pitta Michael M Wallach Corey J CJ Bauk Colleen C Hamilton William G WG
Arthroplasty today 20170710 4
This report describes a patient with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) who underwent total hip arthroplasty (THA) by the direct anterior approach and sustained a L4-5 extension fracture dislocation with neural deficits. A magnetic resonance imaging revealed an epidural hematoma at the site of the fracture causing critical stenosis. The patient was taken to the operating room for a L3-S1 posterior decompression with L2-pelvis posterior spinal fusion. AS and diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis crea ...[more]