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THE INCIDENCE AND TREATMENT OF SCOLIOSIS IN CEREBRAL PALSY

G. A. Balmer 1; and G. Dean MacEwen 2

1 Lancaster, England
2 Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America; Alfred I. du Pont Institute of the Nemours Foundation, Wilmington

1. Ten children with scoliosis and cerebral palsy of various types have been reviewed. All underwent operation for correction and stabilisation of the spinal curve, and spinal fusion.

2. Three of the ten patients required supplemental surgery in the form of regrafting, with or without reinsertion of Harrington rods. All have shown considerable correction of the curve, and in all cases the fusion appears to be consolidated. Operation has given these children stable spines which are compensated. Their ability to sit, and in some cases to stand, has improved.

3. In many such cases of scoliosis complicating cerebral palsy Harrington instrumentation and spinal fusion is the only feasible effective form of treatment.
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Hip, Knee, Trauma, Upper limb, Foot & Ankle, Paediatrics, Oncology, Spine, Arthroplasty, General