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Thoracic Cage Deformity Correction in Patients with Lenke Type 1 Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis.
J Long Term Eff Med Implants
February 2024
First Department of Orthopaedics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Orthopaedic Research and Education Center (OREC) Panayotis N. Soucacos, Athens, Greece.
Whether the thoracic cage deformity in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) can be sufficiently treated with vertebral derotation alone, has been quite controversial. Our aim is to control the hypothesis that the rib cage deformity (RCD) may be adequately corrected when only vertebral derotation is applied. We studied retrospectively patients treated for AIS with posterior spinal fusion without costoplasty.
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