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

Table 4

Radiographic and clinic outcomes in simple posterior decompression and fixation group and PIVCR and spinal shortening group.

	Segmental kyphosis Cobb			VAS
	Preop.	Postop.	At final follow-up	Preop.	Postop.	At final follow-up
Group A	24.84 ± 8.00	8.47 ± 2.82	11.19 ± 3.37	7.38 ± 1.24	3.34 ± 0.90	2.22 ± 1.34
Group B	26.85 ± 8.03	7.21 ± 3.38	8.26 ± 3.20	7.65 ± 1.07	3.06 ± 0.98	1.76 ± 1.02
	0.313	0.105	0.001	0.342	0.225	0.028

indicated statistically significant. Preop indicates preoperative; postop, postoperative; VAS, visual analog scale.