Treatment of thoracic scoliosis: Are monoaxial thoracic pedicle screws the best form of fixation for correction?

Spine

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 845-851

  Lonner, Baron S ^a,f   Auerbach, Joshua D ^b   Boachie Adjei, Oheneba ^c   Shah, Suken A ^d   Hosogane, Naobumu ^c   Newton, Peter O ^e  

^a NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

^d NEMOURS ALFRED I DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^e RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Correction; Hybrid; Monoaxial; Pedicle screw; Polyaxial; Rib hump deformity; Rotation; Scoliosis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; FIXATION DEVICE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; KYPHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPERATION DURATION; PEDICLE SCREW; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIB MALFORMATION; SCOLIOSIS; SPINE FUSION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67650603321     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31819e2753     Document Type: Article

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