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PARTIAL COSTECTOMY AS A COSMETIC OPERATION IN SCOLIOSIS

C. W. Manning 1; F. J. Prime 1; ; and P. A. Zorab 1

1 Cardiothoracic Institute and the Institute of Orthopaedics, London; England

It is suggested that the operation of partial costectomy is so beneficial psychologically to some young scoliotic patients that it is worth the very small physiological cost demonstrated here in patients who found their "hump" sufficiently embarrassing to curtail their normal social life.
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Hip, Knee, Trauma, Upper limb, Foot & Ankle, Paediatrics, Oncology, Spine, Arthroplasty, General