title: Studies of an L-rod sublaminar wire spinal fusion.
abstract: The spine of a 25-year-old man with Duchenne muscular dystrophy was studied postmortem, 8 years after spine fusion with L-rods and sublaminar wires. The fusion was solid. Instrumentation appeared to have had no adverse effects on the spinal cord or meninges or in the epidural space. When wire removal from the spinal canal and fusion mass was studied, increased penetration of the wires into the spinal canal was noted.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Newington Children's Hospital, Connecticut 06111.
authors.forename: T S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Renshaw
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Solga
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Drennan
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Donskoy
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001864:Bone Wires; D005355:Fibrosis / Q000473:pathology; D005549:Foreign-Body Reaction / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009136:Muscular Dystrophies / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D013123:Spinal Fusion