title: [Use of the halo-gravitation-extension in preoperative preparation in severe scoliosis].
abstract: Severe and fixed scoliosis needs a preoperative extension treatment to attain a good result of correction by spondylodesis. Halo-up-extension is a very simple, comfortable and successful method to prepare patients with a severe scoliosis for operation. From January 1981 to July 1989 we carried out the preoperative halo-up-Extension treatment at 45 patients. 39 of them had a severe scoliosis with a cobb-angle of more than 70 degrees. The correction by halo-up-Extension runs on an average of 35% of the total correction.
authors.affiliation: Klinik und Poliklinik für Orthopädie, Bereichs Medizin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Pfeiffer
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hähnel
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001915:Braces; D002648:Child; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011300:Preoperative Care; D012600:Scoliosis / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D013123:Spinal Fusion; D014143:Traction / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*
vernacular_title: Die Anwendung der Halo-Schwerkraft-Extension zur Operationsvorbereitung bei schweren Skoliosen.