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Schmitz, A. et al.

Schmitz, Schulze Bertelsbeck, Schmitt,

Five-year follow-up of intermittent distracting rod correction in congenital scoliosis.

Severe progressive curve deformities in children's congenital scoliosis often require an early operative intervention. As spinal fusion interferes with longitudinal growth, a "growth enabling" operative device may represent an alternative method to delay a progressive curve deformity until an eventual operative intervention can be carried out. We report on the five-year follow-up of a seven-year-old girl who presented at our clinic with severe congenital scoliosis of 62 degrees with a unilateral unsegmented bar between T7 and T12 and an anomaly of segmentation between L2 and L4. An intermittent distracting rod was implanted with transpedicular fixation from T3/T5 to L3/L4. The correction was obtained by distraction of the mobile segments and also by hemiepiphyseodesis between L2 and L4. The rod's longitudinal extension could be distracted using a special thread. Three successive operations to obtain a minimal access to the thread were necessary to achieve a correction to an angle of 30 degrees with a total rod distraction of 4.5 cm.[1]

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Five-year follow-up of intermittent distracting rod correction in congenital scoliosis. Schmitz, A., Schulze Bertelsbeck, D., Schmitt, O. European journal of pediatric surgery : official journal of Austrian Association of Pediatric Surgery ... [et al] = Zeitschrift für Kinderchirurgie. (2002) [Pubmed]

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