Kyphectomy in Children with Myelomeningocele |
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| Authors: | Haluk Altiok Craig Finlayson Sahar Hassani Peter Sturm |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Orthopaedics, Shriners Hospital for Children–Chicago, 2211 North Oak Park Avenue, Chicago, IL 60707, USA;(2) Department of Orthopaedics, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA;(3) Department of Orthopaedics, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, USA |
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| Abstract: | Background Patients with myelomeningocele and rigid lumbar and thoracolumbar kyphosis face substantial functional difficulties with sitting and lying supine and are prone to skin breakdown over the gibbus and risk of infection. Kyphectomy, along with cordotomy and segmental spinal instrumentation down to the pelvis, is one alternative that can provide reliable correction of the deformity but also can maintain that correction over a period of time. |
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