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Total en-bloc spondylectomy for correcting congenital kyphosis
1Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Akita University School of Medicine, Akita, Japan.
Study Design:
A case report of congenital kyphosis corrected using a total en-bloc spondylectomy.
Objectives:
To report a new surgical technique for the treatment of congenital kyphosis with myelopathy.
Setting:
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Akita University School of Medicine, Akita, Japan.
Methods:
A 16-year-old boy who showed a 61 degrees angular kyphosis and a 32 degrees scoliosis from T6 to T9 due to the failure of the vertebral bodies formation in T7 and T8 was treated with a total en-bloc spondylectomy.
Results:
The kyphosis was corrected to 26 degrees (57.3%) and the scoliosis was corrected to 5 degrees (84.4%) postoperatively. Three years postoperatively, no loss of correction has occurred and the patient has no complaints.
Conclusions:
Total en-bloc spondylectomy is one of the useful surgical procedures for correction of congenital kyphosis Type I, with a high correction rate. Spinal Cord (2000) 38, 382 - 385.