Moreno ML, Ordóñez CLE

Language: Spanish
References: 6
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ABSTRACT

Treatment for discopathy has 3 goals: diminish pain, improve function and avoid recurrence. Fusion with graft, plates and cages is common, leading to greater fusion needing other interventions. Total disc arthroplasty is an alternative that maintains mobility of the affected segment, diminishes overload and impedes fusion of intersomatic spaces, relieving pain and improving mobility. In this patient, an implant made of 2 chrome-cobalt plates covered with rugged surfaced titanium that helps bone growth and permits mobility was used as an alternative of treatment to disc herniation considering it a minimally invasive and rapid rehabilitation surgery.

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