Lumbosacral fusion in children and adolescents using the modified sacral bar technique

• Published in: Clinical orthopaedics and related research no. 364; p. 85
• Main Authors: Widmann, R F, Hresko, M T, Hall, J E
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.07.1999
• Subjects: Adolescent; Age Factors; Child; Disease Progression; Equipment Design; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Lordosis - diagnostic imaging; Lordosis - etiology; Lordosis - surgery; Lumbar Vertebrae - surgery; Male; Neuromuscular Diseases - complications; Osteotomy - methods; Patient Selection; Pelvic Bones - surgery; Radiography; Sacrum - surgery; Scoliosis - diagnostic imaging; Scoliosis - etiology; Scoliosis - surgery; Spinal Fusion - adverse effects; Spinal Fusion - instrumentation; Spinal Fusion - methods; Treatment Outcome

Between 1986 and 1995 10 patients who were 9 to 18 years of age underwent posterior spinal fusion and instrumentation to the pelvis for correction of spinal deformity using the modified sacral bar technique at the authors' institution. Etiologies of the spinal deformity included congenital scol...