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Staged Placement of Growing Rods for Metabolic Bone Disease and Insufficient Bone Quality: A Report of Two Cases
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Staged Placement of Growing Rods for Metabolic Bone Disease and Insufficient Bone Quality: A Report of Two Cases

Joseph A Buckwalter V and Stuart Weinstein
JBJS case connector, Vol.4(4), pp.e98-e98
10/2014
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.CC.N.00019
PMID: 29252766

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Abstract

We present two cases of successful staged placement of standard growing-rod instrumentation for early-onset scoliosis in children with metabolic bone disease and poor bone quality. Because use of growing-rod surgery is increasing throughout the world, we propose that a staged approach to placement of growing rods is a practical and safe option for surgeons who encounter patients with early-onset scoliosis and concomitant poor bone quality.

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