Resolution: a 15-year-old with spastic quadriplegia and a 60 degree scoliosis should have a posterior spinal fusion with instrumentation. The American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine 50th anniversary meeting debate.
Banta
J V
JV
Orthopaedic Surgery, Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Hartford 06106, USA.
Lubicky
J P
JP
Lonstein
J E
JE
D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009128:Muscle Spasticity / Q000150:complications*; D011782:Quadriplegia / Q000150:complications*; D011788:Quality of Life; D012600:Scoliosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery*; D013123:Spinal Fusion / Q000295:instrumentation*