Compresión medular por hipercifosis toracolumbar en un cuadro de displasia espondiloepifisaria congénita
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Universidad de Navarra
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ISSN: 0304-5056
Year of publication: 1992
Volume: 27
Issue: 157
Pages: 43-47
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista española de cirugía osteoarticular
Abstract
The clinical findings in DEEC are: Disproportionate dwarfisms (with short spine, kyphoscoliosis, pectus carinatus), genu valgum, etc. The epiphyses are poorly ossified and deformed. Progressive motor weakness may be the first clinical symptom of spinal cord compression caused by a kyphoscoliosis. In these cases we must make a differential diagnosis with a premature osteoarthritis of the hips. We report two cases. One of them was treated with spinal fusion for correction of her kyphoscoliosis, and the other one with a total hip arthroplasty.