Twenty-eight-year follow-up of anterior and posterior fusion for congenital kyphosis. A case report.
METHODS
Case report and long-term follow-up.


OBJECTIVE
To answer the question of whether the operation performed was worthwhile and lasting.


BACKGROUND
Congenital kyphosis due to defects of vertebral body formation has a high incidence of paraplegia if not surgically stabilized. Traditional posterior spine fusion failed for such problems.


METHODS
Radiographic and photographic evidence of the patients's problem, the combined anterior and posterior surgery, and at a 28-year follow-up available.


RESULTS
Surgery at age 13 prevented paraplegia, but also gave correction of deformity and permitted a normal life.


CONCLUSIONS
Combined anterior and posterior spinal fusion is a good operation with lasting value for this condition.
Winter
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Minnesota Spine Foundation, Minneapolis, USA.
Turek-Shay
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D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007738:Kyphosis / Q000151:congenital* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D013123:Spinal Fusion; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed