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SPINAL OSTEOTOMY FOR CONGENITAL KYPHOSIS IN MYELOMENINGOCELE

W. J. W. Sharrard 1

1 Sheffield, England the children's Hospital and University Department of Orthopaedics, Sheffield, England

1. The management of severe kyphosis of the lumbar spine in association with myelomeningocele is discussed.

2. Neonatal spinal osteotomy-resection has been performed in six patients with partial correction of the deformity and a greatly improved ease of closure and healing of the skin defect. The severity of lower limb paralysis has been diminished compared with the complete paraplegia that almost always results from conservative management of closure of the defect without osteotomy.

3. In an older child who has not had the benefit of neonatal osteotomy and who has complete lower limb paralysis, transverse spinal osteotomy or excision of the prominent laminae and pedicles on each side of the midline makes possible the fitting of apparatus for walking and diminishes the liability to recurrent ulceration of the skin.
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Hip, Knee, Trauma, Upper limb, Foot & Ankle, Paediatrics, Oncology, Spine, Arthroplasty, General