Minimizing complications with single submuscular growing rods: A review of technique and results on 88 patients with minimum two-year follow-up

Spine

Volumn 35, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 2252-2258

  Farooq, Najma ^a,b   Garrido, Enrique ^c   Altaf, Farhaan ^a,b   Dartnell, Joanne ^a,b   Shah, Suken A ^d   Tucker, Stewart K ^a,b   Noordeen, Hilali ^a,b  

^a GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL NATIONAL ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

complications; growing rod; immature spine; instrumentation; outcomes; scoliosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KYPHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORTHOPEDIC PROSTHESIS; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; SCHOOL CHILD; SCOLIOSIS; SINGLE SUBMUSCULAR GROWING ROD; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERNAL FIXATORS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL FUSION; SPINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78650551215     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181ecf41a     Document Type: Article

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