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Spine Deform
November 2022
Servicio de Patología Espinal, Hospital de Pediatría Prof. Dr. Juan P. Garrahan, Combate de los Pozos 1881, C1245AAM, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Purpose: To report the results of prolonged post-operative halo-gravity traction in a patient in whom the surgery had to be interrupted unexpectedly and for whom subsequently specific clinical circumstances contraindicated completion of the surgical procedure.
Methods: The patient was a 15-year-old male with severe cervico-dorsolumbar lordoscoliosis who was being studied for associated diffuse axonal injury. He performed halo-gravity traction for 12 weeks.
Bone Joint J
June 2021
Scottish National Spine Deformity Centre, Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, Edinburgh, UK.
Aims: To report the outcome of spinal deformity correction through anterior spinal fusion in wheelchair-bound patients with myelomeningocele.
Methods: We reviewed 12 consecutive patients (7M:5F; mean age 12.4 years (9.
JBJS Case Connect
January 2021
Scottish Rite for Children, Dallas, Texas.
Case: We report the case of an 18-year-old man with extreme cervicothoracic lordosis and a progressive scoliosis secondary to Emery-Dreifuss Type VI muscular dystrophy. In a staged fashion, the patient underwent posterior cervical muscle release, halo-gravity traction, and posterior instrumented spinal fusion from C3-L4 with multiple posterior column osteotomies. The patient was followed over 2 years postoperatively with restoration of normal spinal alignment in both the coronal and sagittal profiles.
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March 2021
Community Health Physiotherapy Department, Ravi Nair Physiotherapy College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Wardha, Maharashtra, India.
Orthopade
June 2019
Altonaer Kinderkrankenhaus Hamburg, Bleickenallee 38, 22763, Hamburg, Deutschland.
Background: Congenital malformations of the spine can produce scoliosis, kyphosis, lordoscoliosis or kyphoscoliosis. Deformities may progress slowly or fast or may even be stable without progression. Knowledge of the natural history of such deformities is of utmost importance.
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