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Cotrel-Dubousset instrumentation and vertebral rotation in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.
We have studied 34 consecutive patients receiving Cotrel- Dubousset instrumentation for a single and flexible thoracic scoliotic curve, evaluating the rib hump deformity from a single CT scan through the apical vertebra of the curve. Using two measures of rotation we found a mean improvement of 25% in the rotation of the vertebra after operation. Any, usually minor, deterioration occurred in th...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Spinal Cord
سال: 1989
ISSN: 1362-4393,1476-5624
DOI: 10.1038/sc.1989.70