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• Spine · Dec 2012

  Review Case Reports

  Posterior vertebral column resection for the treatment of dystrophic kyphosis associated with type-1 neurofibromatosis: a case report and review of the literature.

  Case report. ⋯ We think that posterior-only vertebral column resection represents a safe and efficacious but technically challenging option for the treatment of angular kyphotic spinal deformity and associated neurological deficit in patients with NF1.

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• Spine · Dec 2012

  Review Case Reports

  Massive vertebral destruction associated with chronic rupture of infrarenal aortic aneurysm: case report and systematic review of the literature in the English language.

  Case report and review of literature. ⋯ The presence of aortic abdominal aneurysm is always to be considered in the evaluation of an elderly patient complaining lower back pain or lower limb neuropathy of recent onset, especially in the presence of a degenerative process of the spine.

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