Posterior only pedicle screw instrumentation with intraoperative halo-femoral traction in the surgical treatment of severe scoliosis (>100°)

Spine

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 979-983

  Hamzaoglu, Azmi ^a   Ozturk, Cagatay ^a   Aydogan, Mehmet ^a   Tezer, Mehmet ^a   Aksu, Neslihan ^a   Bruno, Marco B ^b  

^a ISTANBUL BILIM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b IRCCS ISTITUTO ORTOPEDICO GALEAZZI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Intraoperative halo femoral traction; Posterior surgery; Severe scoliosis; Surgical treatment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEMORAL RING TRACTION; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HUMAN; KYPHOSCOLIOSIS; LUNG; MALE; PEDICLE SCREW; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCOLIOSIS; SHOULDER IMBALANCE; TRACTION THERAPY; VITAL CAPACITY; BONE SCREW; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; FEMUR; HOSPITALIZATION; INSTRUMENTATION; KYPHOSIS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEROPERATIVE CARE; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE FUSION; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BONE SCREWS; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; KYPHOSIS; LUNG; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOLIOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL FUSION; THORACOPLASTY; TRACTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 42449135404     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31816c8b17     Document Type: Article

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