Serial casting as a delay tactic in the treatment of moderate-to-severe early-onset scoliosis

Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 664-671

  Fletcher, Nicholas D ^a   McClung, Anna ^b   Rathjen, Karl E ^b   Denning, Jaime R ^c   Browne, Richard ^b   Johnston, Charles E ^b  

^a Emory Spine Center   (United States)

^b TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^c CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

casting; early onset scoliosis; growing rods; Mehta; scoliosis; VEPTR

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACE; CAST APPLICATION; CAST REMOVAL; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EARLY ONSET SCOLIOSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCOLIOSIS; SERIAL CASTING; THERAPY DELAY; THORACIC SPINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; CASTS, SURGICAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOLIOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL FUSION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84866250805     PISSN: 02716798     EISSN: 15392570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BPO.0b013e31824bdb55     Document Type: Article

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