Abstract
The authors treated a case of severe and progressive kyphotic deformity of thoracic spine caused by compression fracture. The patient was sixty-nine year old woman. In 1993, she pulled a carpet and felt severe back pain. Gradually, her back pain increased and kyphotic deformity progressed. Cobb's angle from T10 to L1 was 77° with T11, T12 compression fracture. She had difficulty in sitting for only 5 minutes and had appetite loss. A correction osteotomy with a single posterior approach was used. Cobb's angle was corrected to be 31°, and correction loss was only 1.5° nine months postoperatively.
In this case, correction osteotomy with a single posterior approach provided excellent sagittal correction with good stabilization.
