Long-Term Patient-Reported Outcomes After Ventral Stabilization of Thoracolumbar Fractures
Katharina Jäckle, Paul-Jonathan Roch, Friederike Eva Roch, Friederike Sophie Klockner, Lina Franziska Höller, Marc-Pascal Meier, Thelonius Hawellek, Hassan Awan Malik, Wolfgang Lehmann, Lukas Weiser · 2026
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Katharina Jäckle and co-authors present a 2026 study of long-term results after surgery for spine fractures. The breaks sat where the chest and lower back meet. Surgeons can rebuild the front of the spine with a metal cage, a body replacement part, or a graft of the patient's own pelvic bone. The team asked how patients felt long after each kind of fix.
The study followed 91 patients treated from 2008 to 2018 at one center. Of these, 63 filled in score forms at least a year after surgery. The forms rated pain and daily function on a set scale. The authors weighed age and sex in their math and read the gaps between groups with care. Results of this kind help surgeons pick a rebuild method with the patient's long view in mind, not just the first months of healing.
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| CREATOR | Katharina Jäckle, Paul-Jonathan Roch, Friederike Eva Roch, Friederike Sophie Klockner, Lina Franziska Höller, Marc-Pascal Meier, Thelonius Hawellek, Hassan Awan Malik, Wolfgang Lehmann, Lukas Weiser |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |