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Characterizing antibiotic prophylaxis practices in pediatric deformity spinal surgery and impact on 30-day postoperative infection: an NSQIP pediatric database study
The aim of this study was to characterize antibiotic prophylaxis practices in pediatric patients who have received posterior arthrodesis for spinal deformity and understand how these practices impact 30-day po...
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Risk stratification for early postoperative infection in Pediatric spinal deformity correction: development and validation of the Pediatric scoliosis infection risk score (PSIR score)
Postoperative infection after spinal deformity correction in pediatric patients is associated with significant costs. Identifying risk factors associated with postoperative infection would help surgeons identi...
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Open AccessIncidental dural tears during pediatric posterior spinal fusions
To characterize the frequency of incidental dural tears in pediatric spine surgery, their treatment, complications, and results of long-term follow-up.
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Does radiographic calibration affect linear radiographic measurements in a large pediatric spine registry?
Large registries are increasingly at the forefront of modern pediatric spine research, with manual, centralized, trained radiographic measurement serving as the gold standard for spine research. However, there...
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Open AccessGeographic access to pediatric neurosurgeons in the USA: an analysis of sociodemographic factors
Geographic access to physicians has been shown to be unevenly distributed in the USA, with those in closer proximity having superior outcomes. The purpose of this study was to describe how geographic access to...
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Rib-to-spine and rib-to-pelvis magnetically controlled growing rods: does the law of diminishing returns still apply?
The Law Of Diminishing Returns (LODR) has been demonstrated for traditional growing rods, but there is conflicting data regarding the lengthening behavior of Magnetically Controlled Growing Rods (MCGR). This s...
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Open AccessConcave and convex growth do not differ over tethered vertebral segments, even with open tri-radiate cartilage
To assess the following hypotheses related to vertebral body tethering (VBT): 1. VBT is associated with asymmetric (concave > convex) increases in height over the instrumented vertebra. 2. The instrumented Cob...
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Open AccessDeformity angular ratio is associated with neuromonitoring changes without a vertebral column resection: spinal deformity is more influential than type of surgery
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the deformity angular ratio (DAR) on intra-operative neuromonitoring (IONM) signal changes during posterior spinal fusion (PSF) without vertebral colum...
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Open AccessRate and risk factors for pediatric cervical spine fusion pseudarthrosis: opportunity for improvement
Although the pediatric population typically has a high union rate, the cervical spine has a reputation for frequent pseduarthrosis, as high as 38% in some prior series. Our purpose was to examine the rate and ...
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Temporary internal distraction for severe scoliosis: two-year minimum follow-up
Temporary internal distraction (TID) is a surgical technique used to correct severe scoliosis. We sought to evaluate the long-term outcomes associated with temporary internal distraction (TID) for severe scoli...
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Correction: Re-evaluating consensus and uncertainty among treatment options for early onset scoliosis: a 10-year update
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Re-evaluating consensus and uncertainty among treatment options for early onset scoliosis: a 10-year update
Consensus and uncertainty in early onset scoliosis (EOS) treatment were evaluated in 2010. It is currently unknown how treatment preferences have evolved over the past decade. The purpose of this study was to ...
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Strategies reducing risk of surgical-site infection following pediatric spinal deformity surgery
Identifying beneficial preventive strategies for surgical-site infection (SSI) in individual patients with different clinical and surgical characteristics is challenging. The purpose of this study was to inves...
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Hybrid Distraction-Based Growing Rods
This chapter describes the indications, surgical technique, and benefits of distraction-based growth-friendly implants with rib anchors (hybrid distraction-based growing rods (HGRs)) in the management of early...
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Prevalence of junctional kyphosis in early-onset scoliosis: can it be corrected at final fusion?
To investigate the risk and predictive factors of junctional issues after conversion from Traditional growing rod (TGR) to definitive spinal fusion in Early-onset scoliosis (EOS).
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Defining risk factors for adding-on in Lenke 1 and 2 AR curves
To identify curve/correction characteristics associated with adding-on at 2 years after posterior spinal fusion (PSF) in Lenke 1/2 AR curves.
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Growth-preserving instrumentation in early-onset scoliosis patients with multi-level congenital anomalies
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How low can you go? Implant density in posterior spinal fusion converted from growing constructs for early onset scoliosis
Retrospective, multicenter comparative.
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Power versus manual pedicle tract preparation: a multi-center study of early adopters
Retrospective cohort, multicenter.
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Comparing health-related quality of life and burden of care between early-onset scoliosis patients treated with magnetically controlled growing rods and traditional growing rods: a multicenter study
Multicenter retrospective cohort study.
