Se presenta la experiencia personal en el tratamiento de la patología espinal y paraespinal torácica utilizando la vía de abordaje paraespinal retropleural. Se han intervenido un total de 18 pacientes con patología neoplásica, traumática y discal. Todos los pacientes mejoraron de su clínica neurológica y dolorosa. Se describe la técnica quirúrgica para el tratamiento descompresivo de la médula espinal y raíces y de estabilización anterior y/o posterior del raquis. Se compara la vía paraespinal retropleural con la vía anterior transtorácica. Las ventajas de la vía paraespinal retropleural son sus escasas complicaciones; permitir una descompresión muy amplia de las estructuras neurológicas junto a una estabilización de los elementos raquídeos anteriores y/o posteriores usando un abordaje único; y, finalmente, ser una técnica modulable a la patología concreta del paciente. Estas ventajas se incrementan a la hora de abordar lesiones situadas en el raquis torácico alto o unión toracocervical.
The personal experience in the treatment of the spinal and paraspinal thoracic pathology using the paraspinal retropleural approach is presented. A total of 18 patients with neoplastic, traumatic and discal lesions were operated on. Improvement of neurological disturbances and pain was noted in all patients. The surgical technique for spinal cord and root decompression and also for anterior and/or posterior stabilization of the spine is described. The paraspinal retropleural approach is compared with the anterior transthoracic approach. The advantages of the paraspinal retropleural approach are: low rate of complications; allows a very wide decompression of the neurological elements as well as an anterior and/or posterior stabilization of the spine by a single approach; and it can be easely tailored for each lesion. These advantages are enhanced in the management of lesions located in the upper thoracic or thoracocervical levels.
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