Safety and efficacy of growing rod technique for pediatric congenital spinal deformities

Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-5

  Elsebai, Hazeem B ^a   Yazici, Muharrem ^a   Thompson, George H ^a   Emans, John B ^a   Skaggs, David L ^a   Crawford, Alvin H ^a   Karlin, Lawrence I ^a   McCarthy, Richard E ^a   Poe Kochert, Connie ^a   Kostial, Patricia ^a   Akbarnia, Behrooz A ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

complications; congenital scoliosis; early onset scoliosis; growing rods; surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROWING ROD SURGERY; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINE FUSION; SPINE MALFORMATION; SPINE SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL FUSION; SPINE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78650939332     PISSN: 02716798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BPO.0b013e318202c1f0     Document Type: Article

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