Treatment of Early-Onset Spinal Deformity (EOSD) with VEPTR: A Challenge for the Final Correction Spondylodesis - A Case Series

Clinical Spine Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2016, Pages E246-E251

  Lattig, Friederike ^a,c   Taurman, Rita ^a   Hell, Anna K ^b  

^a Department Orthopädie   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c Department Orthopä Die   (Germany)

Author keywords

complications; curve pattern changes; early onset spinal deformity; final correction spondylodesis; VEPTR

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BALANCE DISORDER; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COBB ANGLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CURVE PATTERN; DISLOCATION; DISTURBED TRUNK BALANCE; EARLY ONSET SPINAL DEFORMITY; EPIPHYSIODESIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; KYPHOSIS; LOSS OF HEAD CONTROL; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROSTHESIS; RADIOGRAPHY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCOLIOSIS; SPINE MALFORMATION; SPONDYLODESIS; VERTICAL EXPANDABLE PROSTHETIC TITANIUM RIB; ABNORMALITIES; CASE REPORT; DEVICES; GENETICS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PROCEDURES; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; RIB; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINE FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

TITANIUM;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RIBS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL FUSION; TITANIUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84991706705     PISSN: 23800186     EISSN: 23800194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BSD.0b013e31826eaf27     Document Type: Article

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