Surgical correction of congenital thoracic lordosis.
A 13-year-old girl with rigid congenital thoracic lordosis and congenital scoliosis was treated by a three-stage procedure of anterior transthoracic closing wedge osteotomies, posterior osteotomies of the laminar synostosis, correction of the deformity by sublaminar wires pulled back to a kyphotic bent Luque rod, and a later "pulling-out" procedure on the lateral chest wall.
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Minnesota Spine Center, Minneapolis.
Leonard
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D000293:Adolescent; D001864:Bone Wires; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008141:Lordosis / Q000150:complications / Q000151:congenital / Q000601:surgery*; D010027:Osteotomy / Q000379:methods*; D019736:Prostheses and Implants; D014797:Vital Capacity