Retrospective analysis of anterior correction and fusion for adolescent idiopathic thoracolumbar/lumbar scoliosis: the relationship between preserving mobile segments and trunk balance

The objective of this paper was to investigate the surgical strategy of the selection of the lowest instrumented vertebrae (LIV) in anterior correction for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) and to discuss the relationship between the LIV and trunk balance. From 1998 to 2004, 28 patients with tho...

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Main Authors: Liu, Yang, Li, Ming, Zhu, Xiao-Dong, Zhou, Xu-Hui, Chen, Hua-Jiang, Wang, Xin-Wei, Shi, Peng, Yuan, Wen
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Springer-Verlag 2008
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2899232/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18188567
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00264-007-0489-4
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