Incidence and risk factors of neurological deficits of surgical correction for scoliosis: analysis of 1373 cases at one Chinese institution

• Published in: Spine (Philadelphia, Pa. 1976) Vol. 33; no. 5; p. 519
• Main Authors: Qiu, Yong, Wang, Shoufeng, Wang, Bin, Yu, Yang, Zhu, Feng, Zhu, Zezhang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.03.2008
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Child; China - epidemiology; Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory; Female; Humans; Incidence; Kyphosis - epidemiology; Kyphosis - surgery; Male; Monitoring, Intraoperative; Nervous System Diseases - epidemiology; Postoperative Complications - epidemiology; Retrospective Studies; Risk Factors; Scoliosis - epidemiology; Scoliosis - etiology; Scoliosis - surgery; China

A retrospective study. To investigate the incidence of neurologic deficits after scoliosis correction at 1 institution and identify the risk factors for such deficits in scoliosis correction. Neurologic deficit is one of the risks of surgical correction of scoliosis. Reports of the incidence of the...