title: [Anterior release combined with posterior correction for the treatment of severe scoliosis].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the clinical results of anterior spinal release combined with posterior correction for the treatment of severe scoliosis.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty-three patients of severe scoliosis were retrospectively analyzed from July 2000 to January 2007. There were 12 males and 11 females with an average age of 15.3 years (ranging from 9 to 18 years). Including 9 congenital scoliosis, 13 idiopethic scoliosis and 1 neurofibromatosis scoliosis. The pre-operative coronal Cobb angles of scoliosis were from 810 to 1260 with the mean of 97.4 degrees.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The post-operative coronal Cobb angles was for 100-450 (37.4 degrees on average). All patients were followed up for 6-24 months (means 10 months). Two cases occurrenced addition phenomemon in junctional zone. There were no hook displacement and rod breaking at follow-up.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Anterior relaxation and posterior correction is a safe and effective treatment. It can achieve well clinical results for the treatment of severe scoliosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics, the 2nd People's Hospital of Shanxi, Taiyuan 030012, Shanxi, China. ygch9305@163.com
authors.forename: Gui-cheng
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016268:Internal Fixators; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012600:Scoliosis / Q000601:surgery*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D016896:Treatment Outcome