Use of the halo-gravitation-extension in preoperative preparation in severe scoliosis
Severe and fixed scoliosis needs a preoperative extension treatment to attain a good result of correction by spondylodesis. Halo-up-extension is a very simple, comfortable and successful method to prepare patients with a severe scoliosis for operation. From January 1981 to July 1989 we carried out t...
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Published in | Beitrage zur Orthopadie und Traumatologie Vol. 37; no. 7; p. 382 |
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Main Authors | , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | German |
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Germany
01.07.1990
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Summary: | Severe and fixed scoliosis needs a preoperative extension treatment to attain a good result of correction by spondylodesis. Halo-up-extension is a very simple, comfortable and successful method to prepare patients with a severe scoliosis for operation. From January 1981 to July 1989 we carried out the preoperative halo-up-Extension treatment at 45 patients. 39 of them had a severe scoliosis with a cobb-angle of more than 70 degrees. The correction by halo-up-Extension runs on an average of 35% of the total correction. |
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ISSN: | 0005-8149 |