Spine
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Review Case Reports
Posterior vertebral column resection for the treatment of dystrophic kyphosis associated with type-1 neurofibromatosis: a case report and review of the literature.
Case report. ⋯ We think that posterior-only vertebral column resection represents a safe and efficacious but technically challenging option for the treatment of angular kyphotic spinal deformity and associated neurological deficit in patients with NF1.
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Observational anatomic study. ⋯ Medial branches of the cervical dorsal rami were discernible in cervical posterior approach laminoplasty and were frequently found adjacent to C4 and C5 spinous processes. The medial branches sometimes supplied motor fibers to the semispinalis capitis muscle. Knowledge of the course of these branches might be helpful for avoiding injury during laminoplasty.
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Case report. ⋯ Calcifying pseudotumor of spine should be treated with a trial of Indomethacin before surgical option is offered, unless the patient has a significant progressive neurological deficit that requires urgent surgical intervention.
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Retrospective study. ⋯ The dual GR technique is safe and effective in the treatment of selected cases of long, complex CS. It maintains correction achieved at initial surgery while allowing spinal growth to continue. And it has an acceptable rate of complications. The osteotomy at the apex vertebra with short segmental fusion of the severe rigid scoliosis or the patients with kyphosis could help to improve the correction and decrease the implant failures, with little influence on the length of the spine.
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A retrospective, consecutive case series. ⋯ The measurement of forced vital capacity is indispensable to predict the need for tracheostomy in patients with CSCI at the acute stage.