TY - JOUR
KW - Adult
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Osteoporosis
KW - Prednisolone
KW - Radiography
KW - Thoracic Vertebrae
KW - Time Factors
AU - Lombardi V
AU - Di Giovanni T
AU - Zizza F
AB - <p>Prolonged steroid therapy may produce sufficient osteoporosis to permit collapse of a vertebral body. Decompressive laminectomy and aggressive postoperative therapy can give gratifying results. One can postulate whether these results are related in any way to the protective effect of the steroid being taken during the time of the collapse of the vertebral bodies.</p>
BT - Surgical neurology
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7079956?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1982 Apr
DO - 10.1016/0090-3019(82)90127-6
IS - 4
J2 - Surg Neurol
LA - eng
N2 - <p>Prolonged steroid therapy may produce sufficient osteoporosis to permit collapse of a vertebral body. Decompressive laminectomy and aggressive postoperative therapy can give gratifying results. One can postulate whether these results are related in any way to the protective effect of the steroid being taken during the time of the collapse of the vertebral bodies.</p>
PY - 1982
SP - 293
EP - 4
T2 - Surgical neurology
TI - Acute collapse of thoracic vertebral bodies after long-term steroid treatment in leprosy.
VL - 17
SN - 0090-3019
ER -