A Glass Foreign Body Migrating into the Lumbar Spinal Canal: A Case Report
We report on a 12-year-old boy in whom a glass fragment migrated into the lumbar spinal canal causing low back pain and radiculopathy 6 years after injury. Computed tomography showed a foreign body in the anterior spinal canal of L5/S1. The patient underwent recapping T-saw laminoplasty to remove th...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2012-08-01
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Series: | Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/230949901202000226 |