The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. 62(5):705–712, JUL 1980
PMID: 7391093
Issn Print: 0021-9355
Publication Date: 1980/07/01
The surgical management of patients with Scheuermann's disease: a review of twenty-four cases managed by combined anterior and posterior spine fusion.
D Bradford;K Ahmed;J Moe;R Winter;J Lonstein;
Abstract
Twenty-four patients with Scheuermann's kyphosis underwent correction of the deformity through a combined anterior and posterior spine fusion. All patients had a solid arthrodesis and most were relieved of their preoperative pain. Deformity was improved in all patients. Significant loss of correction did not occur in the fusion area but it did occur below the posterior arthrodesis in five patients.