[Drill in pedicle of vertebral arch for treatment of the back pain of old vertebrae compression fracture: 19 cases report].

OBJECTIVE: To investigate and analyses feasibility and therapeutic effect of pedicle of vertebral arch drilling in the treatment of old vertebrae compression fracture patients suffering back pain. METHODS: From May 2004 to December 2011, 19 patients with back pain caused of old vertebrae compression fracture were treated by vertebral body decompression with drilling. There were 13 males and 6 females with with an average age of 61 years old ranging from 44 to 78 years. The course of disease was 3 months to 8 years (means 2.5 years). Among them,6 cases were chest-back pain and 13 were lumbodorsal pain. The thoracic vertebrae fracture involved in 9 segments, lumbar vertebrae fracture involved in 18 segments, vertebral height lose