title: Thoracoplasty in the surgical treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.
abstract: A consecutive series of 40 adolescents surgically treated between 1998-2001, by posterior spinal fusion and thoracoplasty were compared with a similar group of 40 adolescents treated in the same period by posterior only segmental fusion. Clinical and radiographic analysis was performed, including the SRS-30 questionnaire and Pulmonary Function Tests (PFT). Minimum five years follow-up was requested. No statistical differences were found between the two groups in PFT's both pre-operatively and at latest follow up. Our findings suggest that thoracoplasty did not adversely affected long-term PFT's in AIS patients treated by posterior spinal fusion alone.
authors.affiliation: Spine Surgery Department, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Greggi
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bakaloudis
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lolli
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Di Silvestre
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cioni
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Giacomini
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Barbanti Brodano
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Vommaro
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Martikos
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Parisini
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007738:Kyphosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D012129:Respiratory Function Tests; D012600:Scoliosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D013123:Spinal Fusion / Q000379:methods*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013905:Thoracoplasty / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*