Article Document Academic Article Information Content Entity Continuant Continuant Journal Article Entity Entity Generically Dependent Continuant 2025-06-24T06:17:29 RDF description of In situ reconstruction of a painful sternal Z-deformity nonunion in a severely osteoporotic and kyphotic patient: a case report - http://repository.healthpartners.com/individual/document-rn27360 In situ reconstruction of a painful sternal Z-deformity nonunion in a severely osteoporotic and kyphotic patient: a case report 4 public 33068 11 10.2106/jbjs.Cc.21.00231 document-rn27360 Orthopedics JBJS case connector 19404 Pain 2022-02-21T22:48:57.408-06:00 <p>CASE: An osteoporotic and kyphotic 72-year-old woman presented with sternal pain, severe chest instability, and shortness of breath secondary to a traumatic sternal nonunion resulting from an unhealed sternal fracture sustained in a motor vehicle accident several months earlier. One-year functional and radiographic outcomes are presented with complete resolution of symptoms. CONCLUSION: Consideration for treatment with multiplanar, contourable, locked plating, augmented by autogenous graft, is warranted in the setting of sternal deformity and nonunion, particularly in the setting of osteoporosis and other sagittal plane deformity.<p> Fractures Osteoporosis Surgery