Five or more proximal anchors and including upper end vertebra protects against reoperation in distraction-based growing rods.
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DOI: 10.1007/s43390-020-00064-x
Abstract: STUDY DESIGN Retrospective multi-center enrollment. OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of patient and surgical factors on proximal complication and revision rates of early onset scoliosis patients using a multicenter database. Proximal anchor pullout and junctional… read more here.
Keywords: proximal anchors; growing rods; anchor; upper end ... See more keywords