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More preoperative flexibility implies adequate neural pliability for curve correction without prophylactic untethering in scoliosis patients with asymptomatic tethered spinal cord, a retrospective study

BACKGROUND: Tethered spinal cord is frequently associated with scoliosis. It is still controversial whether a prophylactic untethering is necessary before correction procedure in scoliosis patients with tethered spinal cord. In this study we determined the clinical outcome of a one-stage posterior s...

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Autores principales: Zhou, Zhenhai, Zhang, Hongqi, Guo, Chaofeng, Yu, Honggui, Wang, Longjie, Guo, Qiang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5472950/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28619063
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-017-1615-0