Long-term Surgical Outcomes After Early Definitive Spinal Fusion for Early-onset Scoliosis With Neurofibromatosis Type 1 at Mean Follow-up of 14 Years
Conclusions:
Our goals for NF-1 scoliosis are to obtain deformity correction, to achieve stable instrumentation by using longer fusion levels and to attain a solid fusion mass that can tolerate continual erosion during the long-term follow-up. We achieve this by using a circumferential approach for EOS associated with NF-1.
Level of Evidence:
Level IV—case series.
Source: Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics - Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Scoliosis Source Type: research
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