Burnei’s disease: teratological spondylolysis

Teratological spondylolysis is a pathological entity noted for the first time in the speciality literature by Gh. Burnei in „The Spine Journal“ on September 25th 2014. This disease was described in a short presentation of the first case treated by the author. The aim of this paper is to expose in a didactic manner the main characteristic aspects of Burnei’s disease: embryological, clinical, imaging and treatment data and also to make this pathological entity with all its pathognomonic diagnostic elements known. This paper is based on daata obtained after analysing 2 cases of teratological spondylolysis: a 18 years old patient with triple L3-L5 teratological spondylolysis with Pang 1 spinal dysraphism and a 1 year old child with teratological spondylolysis and retrospondylolisthesis.