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Paralytic Scoliosis Wheeless

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Location: http://www.wheelessonline.com/ortho/paralytic_scoliosis

Description: Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
Discussion: - preadolescents w/ spinal cord injury have> 95% prevalence of scoliosis & 50% of pts have a pelvic obliquity; - progressive kyphoscoliosis results from effects of gravity & loss of spinal musculature; - upto 2/3 of these patients will requre arthrodesis to prevent severe curve progression

Type: Reference Material
Author/Contact: Wheeless
Institution: Duke
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Language: English

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Added: Mon Feb 04 2002
Last Modified: Fri Jul 20 2007