Patients with myelomeningocele associated severe kyphoscoliosis usually presented rigid and angulated gibbus at their back. The condition causes this group of patients to face difficulties in daily activities, especially sitting lying supine positions. They are also prone have a pressure sore over the encounter risk infection. Here authors would present case four-year-old girl underlying who wa...

PURPOSE Recent work has shown the safety and efficacy of halo-gravity traction as an operative adjunct. However, there are no reports specifically looking at halo-gravity traction in patients with skeletal dysplasia. Our purpose was to assess the safety and efficacy of traction in children with skeletal dysplasia who present with severe kyphoscoliosis. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed eigh...

Prior research in our laboratories (Talarico and Vlahu, 2015) qualitatively and quantitatively documented the relationship between kyphoscoliosis and hiatal hernia (HH). Briefly, a 97-year-old female anatomical donor who died secondary to aspiration pneumonia was radiographed using plain x -ray, high-resolution computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and later dissected. ...

We present a case of postnatally recognized spondylocostal dysplasia that was prenatally misdiagnosed as fetal thoracolumbar kyphoscoliosis secondary to spinal fusion anomalies. Neither two-dimensional ultrasound nor MRI identified the rib anomalies, nor did they allow for correct identification of the more compromised lung. Spondylocostal and spondylothoracic dysostoses involve rib deformities...