Traumatic coronal spondyloptosis of the spine: case report and review of the literature

This complex traumatic spinal deformity underwent reduction and stabilization via techniques accessible to most spinal surgeons. Paraplegia on presentation obviated the need for intraoperative neuromonitoring and enabled muscle relaxant use to facilitate deformity correction. When requiring either neuromonitoring or a higher magnitude of distraction, we advise usage of distraction instrumentation and consideration of vertebrectomy for safe reduction. Understanding the variety of surgical options in the operative management of TCS is critical for safe and effective correction.