Posterior Injured Vertebra Column Resection and Spinal Shortening for Thoracolumbar Fracture Associated with Severe Spinal Cord Injury: A Retrospective Case-Control Observational Study

Table 1

Characteristics of patients in simple posterior decompression and fixation group (group A, n = 32) and PIVCR and spinal shortening group (group B, n = 34).

Patients characteristic	Surgical approach
	Group A	Group B
Median age (years)	37.28 ± 13.40	34.00 ± 11.43	0.288
Sex (M/F)	19/13	22/12	0.655
Duration from initial injury to prior to surgery	17.44 ± 4.23	18.26 ± 3.20	0.372
TLICS scores	7.41 ± 1.19	7.65 ± 1.04	0.384
The sites of injured vertebral segment			0.905
T10	2	3
T11	4	5
T12	13	11
L1	13	15