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Kümmell's disease
Also known as:
Kümmell’s kyphosis
Kümmell’s syndrome
Kümmell's spondylitis
Kümmell-Verneuil disease
Synonyms:
Osteoporotic vertebra collapse, posttraumatic spondylitis, spondylitis post-traumatica, spondylopathia traumatica.
Associated persons:
Hermann Kümmell
Aristide Auguste Stanislas Verneuil
Description:
Historical term for late posttraumatic collapse of a vertebral body. Injury (without fracture) of a vertebra which produces gradual compression and collapse of the vertebral body due to circulatory disorders with resulting rarefying osteitis. Pain, weakness, kyphosis, and a wedge-shaped vertebra are the principal symptoms. The initial injury may be seemingly trivial. The disease occurrs primarily in middle age and the elderly.
Bibliography:
- H. Kümmell:
Traumatische rarefizierende Ostitis. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte, Leipzig, (1891), 1892: 282.185.
- H. Kümmell:
Über die traumatischen Erkrankungen der Wirbelsäule.
Deutsche medicinische Wochenschrift, Berlin, 1895, 21: 180-181.
Kümmell described a series of six patients who sustained "vertebral body collapse" after seemingly minor trauma.
- H. Kümmell:
Der heutige Standpunkt der posttraumatischen Wirbelerkrankung (Kümmellsche Krankheit).
Archiv für orthopädische und Unfall-Chirurgie, München, 1928; 26: 471.
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