Abstract:Objective To analyze and compare the clinical efficacy and mechanical properties between percutaneous trans-traumatic and trans-traumatic short-segment posterior fixation for thoracolumbar fractures.Methods Thirty-five patients with thoracolumbar fracture admitted to Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine from March 2017 to March 2018 were selected. Percutaneous trans-traumatic or trans-traumatic posterior instrumentation was performed according to the patients' wishes, and they were divided into group A (17 cases) and group B (18 cases). After 12 months follow-up, the operative indexes of the two groups were compared: operation time, blood loss, incision length, mechanical properties before and after operation, Cobb angle, height ratio of fracture anterior edge. clinical effect indexes of preoperative and final follow-up were pain visual analogue score (VAS) and Oswestry dysfunction index (ODI), and the safety of surgical treatment was evaluated.Results The operation time, blood loss, and incision length in group B were more than those in group A (P < 0.05). The Cobb angle of kyphosis and the height ratio of anterior vertebral edge of fracture in the two groups were significantly improved after operation (P < 0.05). There was no significant difference in the above mechanical properties between the two groups before and 1 week after operation (P > 0.05). At the last follow-up, the mechanical properties of group B were significantly better than those of group A (P < 0.05). Until the last follow-up, the VAS and ODI scores of pain in both groups were significantly decreased (P < 0.05), and group B was significantly lower than group A (P < 0.05). In addition, the difference of VAS score and ODI score in group A was lower than that in group B (P < 0.05). There were no incision infection, loosening, breaking and falling of screw rod in both groups. There was one case of adjacent vertebral fracture in group A after operation.Conclusion Percutaneous transpedicular short-segment posterior fixation for the treatment of thoracolumbar fractures has relatively poor surgical indicators, but the long-term clinical efficacy is significant, which can provide patients with sustained and stable mechanical properties of the thoracolumbar spine.