title: Is Cotrel-Dubousset Instrumentation the treatment of choice for idiopathic scoliosis in the adolescent who has an operative thoracic curve?
authors.affiliation: Miami Children's Hospital.
authors.forename: H L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Shufflebarger
authors.forename: A H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Crawford
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009984:Orthopedic Fixation Devices; D011859:Radiography; D012600:Scoliosis / Q000601:surgery*; D013123:Spinal Fusion / Q000379:methods; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*