PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Khoueir, Paul
AU  - Wang, Michael Y.
TI  - Posterior Dynamic Stabilization as a Salvage Procedure for Lumbar Facet Degeneration Following Total Disc Arthroplasty: Case report
AID  - 10.1016/SASJ-2007-0103-CR-R2
DP  - 2007 Jan 01
TA  - International Journal of Spine Surgery
PG  - 143--146
VI  - 1
IP  - 4
4099  - https://www.ijssurgery.com/content/1/4/143.short
4100  - https://www.ijssurgery.com/content/1/4/143.full
SO  - Int J Spine Surg2007 Jan 01; 1
AB  - Following an L5–S1 SB Charité disc III implantation, a 37-year-old female patient developed intractable radicular pain in the left L5 distribution. The patient underwent a minimally invasive foraminotomy, and her symptoms improved significantly. However, following recurrence of radicular pain, she showed signs of an L5–S1 facet degeneration and recurrent nerve root compression from hypertrophied synovium. A partial facetectomy was then performed to completely decompress the L5 root with supplemental posterior dynamic stabilization using a pedicle-based flexible titanium rod system. To date, the patient remains free of symptoms. Although posterolateral fusion would have been a viable option, the application of a posterior dynamic system permitted segmental motion preservation.